·noun The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed.
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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
The name which the Jews gave in their proper tongue, i.e., in Aramaic, to the field which was purcha...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
(the field of blood) (Akeldama in the Revised Version), the name given by the Jews of Jerusalem to a...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary