1. field (open land, cultivated ground) — An open area of land, typically cultivated ground or countryside, as opposed to a town or enclosed settlement. All 13 occurrences denote the same spatial concept of open terrain, whether definite ('the field') or indefinite ('a field'). The presence or absence of the Hebrew article does not create a separate lexical sense. Multilingual evidence confirms uniformity: eng 'field / the field,' spa 'el campo / campo,' hin खेत के / मैदान के, arb الْحَقْلِ / الْبَرِّيَّةِ, kor 밥의 / 들의, swa shamba / mashamba. Arabic الْبَرِّيَّةِ ('wilderness') in some occurrences reflects contextual nuance of open country rather than a distinct sense. 13×
AR["-الْحَقْلِ","البَرِّيَّةِ","البَرّيَّة","الحَقلِ","الحَقْل","الحَقْلِ","الْبَرُِّيَّةِ","الْحَقْلُ","الْحَقْلِ","حَقْلٍ","حَقْلِي"]·ben["ক্ষেতের","মাঠ","মাঠের"]·DE["Feld","Feld-von","[שדי]","der-Feld"]·EN["field","of-the-field","the-field"]·FR["Tout-Puissant","[שדי]","champ","le-Tout-Puissant"]·heb["שׂדי","שדה","שדי","שדיי"]·HI["खेत-की","खेत-के","खेतों-की","मैदान","मैदान-के","मैदानके"]·ID["ladang","padang","padang,"]·IT["[שדי]","campo","l'Onnipotente"]·jav["ara-ara","ing-ara-ara","kewan","pategalan","sabin","tegal","tegalan"]·KO["나의-밤의","들-의","들-이","들의","밤의","밥의","밭-의","쉼표"]·PT["campo","do-campo","dos-frutos-de","o-campo"]·RU["поле","полевые","полевых","полей","поля"]·ES["campo","el-campo"]·SW["kondeni","mashamba","shamba","shambani","wa-shamba","ya-shamba"]·TR["kirin","kır","kırların","kırlık","kırın","tarla","tarlanın"]·urd["جنگل-کے","جنگلی","میدان","میدان-کا","میدان-کے","میرے-کھیت","کھیت-کی","کھیت-کے"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† שָׂדַי n.m. ψ 96:12 field, land (rare orig. form of שָׂדֶה (q.v. infr.), only poet.);—abs. שׂ׳ Je 4:17, שָׂדָ֑י Ho 10:4 +;— 1. cultivated field 12:12, also 10:4 (si vera l., but v. Now), yielding food Dt 32:13 La 4:9; שֹׁמְרֵי שׂ׳ Je 4:17 keepers, watchmen, of a field. 2. home of wild beasts: בְּהֵמוֹת שׂ׳ ψ 8:8 Jo 2:22, חַיְתוֹ שׂ׳ Is 56:9 ψ 104:11, זִיז שׂ׳ 50:11; 80:14. 3. plain, opp. mt., Je 18:14 (but dub., Co Du שִׂרְיֹן). 4. land, opp. sea, ψ 96:12 (cf. שָׂדֶה 3; ‖ תֵּבֵל ψ 98:7).