The village founded in 1951 by immigrants from the Jewish village of Sandur in Iraqi Kurdistan. The name Sde Trumot is based on the lamentation of David for Saul and Jonathan who were killed in a war against the Philistines on the nearby Mount Gilboa. The lamentation is recorded in the first chapter of Samuel II. The words Sde Trumot, meaning fields of offerings (of grain), appear in Samuel II, chapter 1, verse 21. The new settlers wanted to restore these fruitful fields of grain offerings.