Access to class' Fields without using reflection?

Is there a way to access a specific Field on a class without using reflection?

Consider this class:

class MyType {
    public int theNumber;
}

Where I would like to get access to theNumber's java.lang.reflect.Field.

This works for sure:

Field f = MyType.class.getDeclaredField("theNumber");

However, I would like compile check on the field name, so ideally something like this instead (but of course my example doesn't compile):

Field f = MyType.class::theNumber;

Is this possible or am I way of wrt the compiler abilities?