Word study
Field
9 Hebrew and 5 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: field, fields. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “field” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- שָׂדֶה sâdehid.translated this way 249 times of its 317 uses · Strong’s H7704Noun · Translated: field 185, fields 55, land 19, wild 13Full study and all 299 verses →
Genesis 2:5 Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted, for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
Exodus 1:14 and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.
- חֶלְקָה chelqâhportiontranslated this way 10 times of its 28 uses · Strong’s H2513Noun · Translated: field 9, plot 3, portion 2, plot of ground 2Full study and all 24 verses →
2 Samuel 14:30 Then Absalom said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire!” And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
2 Kings 3:19 And you shall attack every fortified city and every city of importance. You shall cut down every good tree, stop up every spring, and ruin every good field with stones.”
- בַּר barfieldtranslated this way 8 times of its 8 uses · Strong’s H1251Noun · Translated: field 8Full study and all 7 verses →
Daniel 2:38 Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.
Daniel 4:12 Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant, and upon it was food for all. Under it the beasts of the field found shelter, in its branches the birds of the air nested, and from it every creature was fed.
- פָּנִים pânîmface, beforetranslated this way 4 times of its 1,836 uses · Strong’s H6440Noun · Translated: before 448, face 222, presence 147, before you 123Full study and all 1,671 verses →
Numbers 19:16 Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
- שְׁדֵמָה shedêmâhfieldtranslated this way 4 times of its 5 uses · Strong’s H7709Noun · Translated: fields 4, scorched 1Full study and all 5 verses →
Deuteronomy 32:32 But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.
2 Kings 23:4 Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
- אֶרֶץ eretsearth, landtranslated this way 3 times of its 2,375 uses · Strong’s H776Noun · Translated: land 1,483, earth 564, ground 119, lands 41Full study and all 2,120 verses →
- חוּץ chûtsthe outsidetranslated this way 3 times of its 156 uses · Strong’s H2351Noun · Translated: outside 70, streets 38, out 11, street 11Full study and all 152 verses →
Job 5:10 He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
Psalm 144:13 Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.
- כַּרְמֶל karmelplantation, garden-landtranslated this way 2 times of its 16 uses · Strong’s H3759Noun · Translated: orchard 6Full study and all 14 verses →
2 Chronicles 26:10 Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.
Isaiah 32:16 Then justice will inhabit the wilderness, and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field.
- יָגַב yâgabtill, be husbandmantranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s H3009Conjunctive waw, Preposition · Translated: fields 2Full study and all 2 verses →
2 Kings 25:12 But the captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.
Jeremiah 52:16 But Nebuzaradan captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.
Greek words (New Testament)
- ἀγρός agrósa field, the countrytranslated this way 27 times of its 35 uses · Strong’s G68Noun · Translated: field 22, fields 5, countryside 4, country 3Full study and all 34 verses →
Matthew 6:28 And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin.
Mark 10:29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel
- χωρίον chōríona place, piece of land, fieldtranslated this way 3 times of its 10 uses · Strong’s G5564Noun · Translated: field 3, place 2, land 2, plot of ground 1Full study and all 9 verses →
Acts 1:18 (Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.
Acts 1:19 This became known to all who lived in Jerusalem, so they called that field in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)
- μέτρον métrona measure, measuring rodtranslated this way 2 times of its 13 uses · Strong’s G3358Noun · Translated: measure 9, limit 1, field of influence 1, field 1Full study and all 11 verses →
2 Corinthians 10:13 We, however, will not boast beyond our limits, but only within the field of influence that God has assigned to us — a field that reaches even to you.
- χόρτος chórtosgrass, haytranslated this way 2 times of its 15 uses · Strong’s G5528Noun · Translated: grass 9, field 2, wheat 1, stalk 1Full study and all 13 verses →
James 1:10 But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
1 Peter 1:24 For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
- χώρα chṓraregion, land, fieldstranslated this way 2 times of its 26 uses · Strong’s G5561Noun · Translated: region 10, country 7, land 3, fields 2Full study and all 26 verses →
John 4:35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
James 5:4 Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.