שִׁדָּה
concubine
also: wife, harem fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (50%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7705 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ecclesiastes 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, שדה (shiddâh) means “concubine.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in Ecclesiastes (100% of all occurrences). A true hapax — its single appearance is Ecclesiastes 2:8. Ranging over 2 senses, its meaning includes “wife” and “harem”. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7705 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ecclesiastes 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Musical instruments 1×
- American Standard Version: Musical instruments 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Concubines 1×, Many 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Breast 1×, Breasts 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7705 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7705 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7705 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7705 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- concubine, wife, harem
- meaning unknown
Word origin
n.f. meaning unknown;—only s. et pl. שִׁדָּה וְשִׁדּוֹת Ec 2:8, apparently appos. of תַּעֲנֻגוֹת (𝔊 οἰνοχόον καὶ οἰνοχόας, i.e. שֹׁדֶה וְשֹׁדוֹת, from Aramaic שְׁדָא pour out [but not spec. of wine]; Aq κυλίκιον καὶ κυλίκια (cf. 𝔙), prob. from same √; Dl Prol. 97 Kö ii. 1. 161 Wildeb Siegf cp. Assyrian šadâdu, love (Siegf ‘Haremsperlen’), but this word lacks evidence; poss. שָׂרָה וְשָׂרוֹת, v. i. שָׂרָה).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שדד (shâdad) (H7703) — to devastate.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שֵׁדָה
- , pl. שֵׁדוֹת, v. שֵׁד.
שִׁדָּה
- , v. שִׁידָּה
שָׂדֶה
- c. (b. h.; cmp. שָׂדַד; v. Del. Assyr. Handw. s. v. šid(d) u, p. 64
- 2. tract of land, field. Shebi. I, 1, a. fr. שְׂדֵה האילן a cultivated field in which trees grow, opp. שְׂ׳ הלבן, v. לָבָן. Sifra B’ḥuck., Par. 4, ch. XI (ref. to Lev. XXVII, 21) מגיד שהש׳ קרוי לשון זכר וכ׳ this proves that sadeh is of masculine gender in the sacred (Biblical) language. Arakh. VIII, 1 המקדיש את שָׂדֵהוּ if a man consecrates his field. Ib. VII, 5 הלוקח … כשְׂ׳ אחוזה if a man bought a field of his father, and his father died, and after this he consecrated it, it is legally treated as an inherited field (Lev. XXVII, 16), contrad. to שְׂ׳ מקנה a purchased field (ib. 22); a. fr.—Keth. I, 6, a. e. נסתחפה שדהו, שָׂדְךָ, v. סָחַף.—Tosef. Shebi. VI, 21 ירקות סָדֶה ed. Zuck. (Var. ש׳) vegetable growing in the field (in the Sabbatical year).—Pl. שָׂדוֹת. Arakh. IX, 5 כל שהוא … חוץ מן הש׳ whatever is within a city wall is legally the same as houses, except fields. Ib. 7; a. fr. e.g. Leviticus 27:21
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H7705 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/שִׁדּֽוֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 2:8 | 1 |
| שִׁדָּ֥ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 2:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7705, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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