Easton's Bible Dictionary: Field
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(Hebrews sadeh), a cultivated field, but unenclosed. It is applied to any cultivated ground or pasture (
Genesis 29:2
;
31:4
;
34:7
), or tillage (
Genesis 37:7
;
47:24
). It is also applied to woodland (
Psalm 132:6
) or mountain top (
Judges 9:32
, 36;
2 Samuel 1:21
). It denotes sometimes a cultivated region as opposed to the wilderness (
Genesis 33:19
;
36:35
). Unwalled villages or scattered houses are spoken of as "in the fields" (
Deuteronomy 28:3
, 16;
Leviticus 25:31
;
Mark 6:36
, 56). The "open field" is a place remote from a house (
Genesis 4:8
;
Leviticus 14:7
, 53;
17:5
). Cultivated land of any extent was called a field (
Genesis 23:13
, 17;
41:8
;
Leviticus 27:16
;
Ruth 4:5
;
Nehemiah 12:29
).
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