Bible Dictionaries
Field

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Heb. sadeh), a cultivated field, but unenclosed. It is applied to any cultivated ground or pasture (Genesis 29:2; 31:4; 34:7 ), or tillage (Genesis 37:7; 47:24 ). It is also applied to woodland (Psalm 132:6 ) or mountain top (Judges 9:32,36; 2 Samuel 1:21 ). It denotes sometimes a cultivated region as opposed to the wilderness (Genesis 33:19; 36:35 ). Unwalled villages or scattered houses are spoken of as "in the fields" (Deuteronomy 28:3,16; Leviticus 25:31; Mark 6:36,56 ). The "open field" is a place remote from a house (Genesis 4:8; Leviticus 14:7,53; 17:5 ). Cultivated land of any extent was called a field (Genesis 23:13,17; 41:8; Leviticus 27:16; Ruth 4:5; Nehemiah 12:29 ).