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单词 potter's field
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
potter's field, (sometimes caps.)
  1. Biblea piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
  • 1520–30

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
potter's field n
  1. US a cemetery where the poor or unidentified are buried at the public expense
  2. the land bought by the Sanhedrin with the money paid for the betrayal of Jesus (which Judas had returned to them) to be used as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor (Acts 1:19; Matthew 27:7)
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