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# שְׁדֵמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7709

**field** — used 6 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/1513/7709/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁדֵמָה: n.f. field [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7709/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. field;—only pl.: abs. שְׁדֵמוֹת Hb 3:17 Je 31:40 Qr (\> Kt השׁרמות); cstr. שַׁדְמ(וֹ)ת Dt 32:32 + 2 times;—fields, as cultivated Dt 32:32, also (c. vb. sg.) Is 16:8; Hb 3:17; as locality 2 K 23:4, area Je 31:40.—שְׁדֵמָה Is 37:27 v. שְׁדֵפָה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 32:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.32/#tree)

כִּֽי־מִגֶּ֤פֶן סְדֹם֙ גַּפְנָ֔ם וּמִשַּׁדְמֹ֖ת עֲמֹרָ֑ה עֲנָבֵ֙מוֹ֙ עִנְּבֵי־ר֔וֹשׁ אַשְׁכְּלֹ֥ת מְרֹרֹ֖ת לָֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[is\].from the.vine of.Sodom vine their and from the.terraced.fields of.Gomorrah grapes their \[are\].grapes of.poison clusters bitter \[belong\].to them

*JPS 1917:* For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter;

[Isaiah 16:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.16.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.16.8/#tree)

כִּ֣י שַׁדְמוֹת֩ חֶשְׁבּ֨וֹן אֻמְלָ֜ל גֶּ֣פֶן שִׂבְמָ֗ה בַּעֲלֵ֤י גוֹיִם֙ הָלְמ֣וּ שְׂרוּקֶּ֔יהָ עַד־יַעְזֵ֥ר נָגָ֖עוּ תָּ֣עוּ מִדְבָּ֑ר שְׁלֻ֣חוֹתֶ֔יהָ נִטְּשׁ֖וּ עָ֥בְרוּ יָֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) the.terraced.fields of.Heshbon it.has.languished the.vine\[s\] of.Sibmah rulers of.nations they.have.struck.down its.choice grapes to Jazer they.reached they.wandered \[the\].wilderness shoots its they.were.spread.out they.passed.over \[the\].sea

*JPS 1917:* For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah, whose choice plants did overcome the lords of nations; they reached even unto Jazer, they wandered into the wilderness; her branches were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7709/): 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).