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# שָׂדַי

Biblical Hebrew

**field** — used 13 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

field [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5d3_5b7_5d9/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂדַי: n.m. field, land [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5d3_5b7_5d9/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** 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 +;— 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. 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. plain, opp. mt., Je 18:14 (but dub., Co Du שִׂרְיֹן). land, opp. sea, ψ 96:12 (cf. שָׂדֶה 3; ‖ תֵּבֵל ψ 98:7).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of \[the\] field (9); of a field (2); (of) a field (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 8:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.8.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.8.8/#tree)

צֹנֶ֣ה וַאֲלָפִ֣ים כֻּלָּ֑ם וְ֝גַ֗ם בַּהֲמ֥וֹת שָׂדָֽי׃

*Word for word:* sheep and cattle(s) of.them all and also \[the\].animals of.\[the\].field

*JPS 1917:* Sheep and oxen, all of them, yea, and the beasts of the field;

[Psalms 50:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.50.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.50.11/#tree)

יָ֭דַעְתִּי כָּל־ע֣וֹף הָרִ֑ים וְזִ֥יז שָׂ֝דַ֗י עִמָּדִֽי׃

*Word for word:* I.know every bird of.\[the\].mountains and moving.creature\[s\] of.\[the\].field \[are\].with me

*JPS 1917:* I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5d3_5b7_5d9.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5d3_5b7_5d9/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).