- a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matthew 27:7.
- a cemetery where the poor or unidentified are buried at the public expense
- 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)
