In biblical times, cornfields were significant agricultural areas where grain crops, particularly wheat and barley, were cultivated. The term "corn" in the Bible typically refers to these grains rather than maize, which is commonly known as corn in modern English. Cornfields are mentioned in several passages, illustrating their importance in the daily life and economy of ancient Israel.

Biblical References:

1. Provision and Sustenance:
Cornfields were essential for providing sustenance to the people of Israel. The grain harvested from these fields was a staple food, used to make bread, which was a central part of the diet. In the Book of Ruth, the gleaning of cornfields is depicted as a means of provision for the poor and the foreigner. Ruth 2:2 states, "And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, 'Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain behind someone in whose sight I may find favor.'"

2. Sabbath Observance:
The cornfield is also a setting for teaching about the Sabbath. In the New Testament, Jesus and His disciples walked through the cornfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to pluck heads of grain to eat. This incident is recorded in Matthew 12:1 : "At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them." This passage highlights the tension between the Pharisaic interpretation of the Sabbath laws and Jesus' teaching on mercy and necessity.

3. Parables and Teachings:
Jesus used the imagery of cornfields in His parables to convey spiritual truths. In the Parable of the Weeds, found in Matthew 13:24-30, Jesus compares the kingdom of heaven to a man who sowed good seed in his field, but an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat. This parable uses the cornfield as a metaphor for the world, illustrating the coexistence of good and evil until the time of harvest.

4. Judgment and Harvest:
The imagery of the harvest in cornfields is often used to symbolize judgment and the end times. In Revelation 14:15 , an angel is instructed to reap the earth's harvest: "Then another angel came out of the temple, calling in a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud, 'Swing Your sickle and reap, because the time has come to harvest; for the crop of the earth is ripe.'"

Cultural and Historical Context:

Cornfields in ancient Israel were typically small plots of land, often terraced on hillsides to maximize arable space. The agricultural cycle was closely tied to the religious calendar, with festivals such as the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot) celebrating the wheat harvest. The Law of Moses provided for the poor by allowing them to glean the edges of the fields, as seen in Leviticus 19:9-10 : "When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor and the foreigner."

Cornfields, therefore, were not only a source of physical nourishment but also a setting for divine instruction and a symbol of God's provision and justice.(n.) A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn.4702. sporimos -- sown, ie a sown field
... neut. plur: sown fields. Word Origin from speiro Definition sown, ie a sown
field NASB Word Usage grainfields (3). cornfield. From ...
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Evil Thoughts.
... No garden is without weeds; there are tares in every cornfield. Who speak thus?
Is it those who are conscientious and scrupulous to drive away evil thoughts? ...
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Popular Science, Like that of Mr. ...
... A man might live in a complete cosmos of blue and yellow, like the "Edinburgh Review";
a man might never have seen anything but a golden cornfield and a ...
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Sodom, Capernaum, Manchester
... are! They harvest for us a few ears plucked in the great waving
cornfield,"and all the others withered and died where they grew. ...
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The Sabbath
... Here they felt sure of their position; and when they found the disciples, in a
cornfield where the long stems had closed over the path, "making a way," which ...
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One Seed and Diverse Soils
... A path through a cornfield is a prosaic enough thing, but one who habitually holds
converse with the unseen, and ever sees it shining through the seen, beholds ...
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John Chapter vi. 14-Jan
... For who even now feeds the whole world, but He who creates the cornfield
from a few grains? He therefore created as God creates. ...
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Persecuting the Methodists
... At the top of it is a cornfield; in the midst of which is another round hill, about
two hundred yards in diameter, encompassed with a wall and a deep ditch. ...
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Wesley's Terrible Ride
... which is on the other side of the yard and is shut, will stop them": but they rushed
through it as if it had been a cobweb and galloped on through the cornfield ...
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Four Sowings and one Ripening
... entrance into the heart or mind. A beaten path runs by the end, or perhaps
through the middle, of the cornfield. It is of exactly the ...
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'As I have Loved'
... the ground is seamed, but when the seed springs the ridges are hidden, no division
appears, and as far as the eye can reach, the cornfield stretches, rippling ...
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Cornfield (1 Occurrence)
... in America, a field of Indian corn. Multi-Version Concordance Cornfield
(1 Occurrence). Psalms 72:16 There shall be abundance of ...
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Fatherless (44 Occurrences)
... once every three years, for the relief of the destitute (Deuteronomy 14:28, 29;
Deuteronomy 26:12-14), and that gleanings be left in the cornfield, the olive ...
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Cornfields (3 Occurrences)

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Cornets (2 Occurrences)

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Tops (37 Occurrences)
... Psalms 72:16 May he be as a rich cornfield in the land upon the top of the mountains;
may his fruit rustle like Lebanon; and may they blossom out of the city ...
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