Reference: Field
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(Heb sadeh), a cultivated field, but unenclosed. It is applied to any cultivated ground or pasture (Ge 29:2; 31:4; 34:7), or tillage (Ge 37:7; 47:24). It is also applied to woodland (Ps 132:6) or mountain top (Jg 9:32,36; 2Sa 1:21). It denotes sometimes a cultivated region as opposed to the wilderness (Ge 33:19; 36:35). Unwalled villages or scattered houses are spoken of as "in the fields" (De 28:3,16; Le 25:31; Mr 6:36,56). The "open field" is a place remote from a house (Ge 4:8; Le 14:7,53; 17:5). Cultivated land of any extent was called a field (Ge 23:13,17; 41:8; Le 27:16; Ru 4:5; Ne 12:29).
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Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out to the field." While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
and said to Ephron in their hearing, "Hear me, if you will. I pay to you the price of the field. Take it from me so that I may bury my dead there."
So Abraham secured Ephron's field in Machpelah, next to Mamre, including the field, the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field and all around its border,
He saw in the field a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now a large stone covered the mouth of the well.
So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.
Then he purchased the portion of the field where he had pitched his tent; he bought it from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money.
Now Jacob's sons had come in from the field when they heard the news. They were offended and very angry because Shechem had disgraced Israel by sexually assaulting Jacob's daughter, a crime that should not be committed.
When Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated the Midianites in the land of Moab, reigned in his place; the name of his city was Avith.
There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the middle of the field. Suddenly my sheaf rose up and stood upright and your sheaves surrounded my sheaf and bowed down to it!"
In the morning he was troubled, so he called for all the diviner-priests of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.
When you gather in the crop, give one-fifth of it to Pharaoh, and the rest will be yours for seed for the fields and for you to eat, including those in your households and your little children."
and sprinkle it seven times on the one being cleansed from the disease, pronounce him clean, and send the live bird away over the open countryside.
and he is to send the live bird away outside the city into the open countryside. So he is to make atonement for the house and it will be clean.
This is so that the Israelites will bring their sacrifices that they are sacrificing in the open field to the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent to the priest and sacrifice them there as peace offering sacrifices to the Lord.
The houses of villages, however, which have no wall surrounding them must be considered as the field of the land; they will have the right of redemption and must revert in the jubilee.
"'If a man consecrates to the Lord some of his own landed property, the conversion value must be calculated in accordance with the amount of seed needed to sow it, a homer of barley seed being priced at fifty shekels of silver.
You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field.
Gaal saw the men and said to Zebul, "Look, men are coming down from the tops of the hills." But Zebul said to him, "You are seeing the shadows on the hills -- it just looks like men."
Then Boaz said, "When you acquire the field from Naomi, you must also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the wife of our deceased relative, in order to preserve his family name by raising up a descendant who will inherit his property."
and from Beth Gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built settlements for themselves around Jerusalem.
Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy something for themselves to eat."
And wherever he would go -- into villages, towns, or countryside -- they would place the sick in the marketplaces, and would ask him if they could just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.
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Sadeh in Hebrew implies cultivated land (as field is derived from felling trees), but unenclosed; whereas the English "field" implies enclosure. In contrast to the adjoining wilderness (Ge 33:19; 36:35). The sadeh is contrasted with what is enclosed, as a vineyard (Nu 22:23-24) or a city (De 28:3,16). Unwalled villages were counted by the law as "the fields of the country" (Le 25:31). "Field" means the open country, apart from habitations, in Ge 25:27; 37:15. Stones marked off separate plots; to remove these landmarks entailed the curse (De 27:17). The lack of fences exposed the fields to straying cattle (Ex 22:5) or fire (2Sa 14:30).
Hence, the need of watchers, now named nator. The rye or spelled was placed "in its (the field's) border" (Isa 28:25). The wheat was put in the middle, the best and safest place, and the several other grains in their own place. The tallest and strongest grain outside formed a kind of fence. "A town in the country (field)" is a provincial town, as distinguished from the royal city (1Sa 27:5). "Fruitful field" is a distinct word, Carmel. (See CARMEL.) Another term, mareh, "meadows," is a naked treeless region (Jg 20:33); "the liers in wait came from the open plains of Gibeah"; not that their ambush was there, but the men of Benjamin had been previously enticed away from the city (Jg 20:31), so the liers in wait came to the city from the thus exposed plain.
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When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.
Then he purchased the portion of the field where he had pitched his tent; he bought it from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money.
When Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated the Midianites in the land of Moab, reigned in his place; the name of his city was Avith.
When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him, "What are you looking for?"
"If a man grazes his livestock in a field or a vineyard, and he lets the livestock loose and they graze in the field of another man, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.
The houses of villages, however, which have no wall surrounding them must be considered as the field of the land; they will have the right of redemption and must revert in the jubilee.
And the donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand, so the donkey turned aside from the road and went into the field. But Balaam beat the donkey, to make her turn back to the road. Then the angel of the Lord stood in a path among the vineyards, where there was a wall on either side.
Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor's boundary marker.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'
You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field.
The Benjaminites attacked the army, leaving the city unguarded. They began to strike down their enemy just as they had done before. On the main roads (one leads to Bethel, the other to Gibeah) and in the field, they struck down about thirty Israelites.
All the men of Israel got up from their places and took their positions at Baal Tamar, while the Israelites hiding in ambush jumped out of their places west of Gibeah.
David said to Achish, "If I have found favor with you, let me be given a place in one of the country towns so that I can live there. Why should your servant settle in the royal city with you?"
So he said to his servants, "Look, Joab has a portion of field adjacent to mine and he has some barley there. Go and set it on fire." So Absalom's servants set Joab's portion of the field on fire.
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Field.
The Hebrew sadeh is applied to any cultivated ground, and in some instances in marked opposition to the neighboring wilderness. On the other hand the sadeh is frequently contrasted with what is enclosed, whether a vineyard, a garden or a walled town. In many passages the term implies what is remote from a house,
or settled habitation, as in the case of Esau.
The separate plots of ground were marked off by stones, which might easily be removed,
De 19:14; 27:17
cf. Job 24:2; Prov 22:28; 23:10 the absence of fences rendered the fields liable to damage from straying cattle,
or fire,
hence the necessity of constantly watching flocks and herds. From the absence of enclosures, cultivated land of any size might be termed a field.
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Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out to the field." While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
He went out to relax in the field in the early evening. Then he looked up and saw that there were camels approaching.
When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.
"If a man grazes his livestock in a field or a vineyard, and he lets the livestock loose and they graze in the field of another man, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard. "If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started the fire must surely make restitution.
You must not encroach on your neighbor's property, which will have been defined in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.
Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor's boundary marker.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'
Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.