שְׁדֵמָה
she.de.mah (H7709)
field
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Based on the lexicon data provided, the word שְׁדֵמָה (H7709) refers to a "field". This word, related to agriculture and land, appears six times in the Hebrew Bible. Its range of usage is likely associated with agricultural contexts, possibly including areas for planting, harvesting, or pasture for livestock. The term's connection to land further emphasizes its practical significance for ancient Israelites involved in farming and rural life. The significance of שְׁדֵמָה lies in its commonality and applicability to everyday life in the ancient Near East. Its six occurrences in the Hebrew Bible suggest its importance, though not necessarily in a grand or theological sense. Instead, it represents a fundamental aspect of the daily lives of those living in rural areas, underscoring the relationship between the people and their land.
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For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.
The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.
Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.
The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, will be holy to Yahweh. It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever.”
For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls: