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# צִידוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6721

**Sidon** — used 22 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Sidon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6721/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִידוֹן: n.pr.loc. Sîdôn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6721/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** and (Gn 10:15, 19; 49:3) צִידֹן n.pr.loc. Sîdôn, Σιδων, ancient Phoenician city, on coast N. of Tyre (in Assyrian Ṣidun(n)u, COTGloss; TelAm. Ṣiduna, Ph. צדן, Old Aramaic צידן; in Egypt. Dï-(d)u-na, WMMAs. u. Kur. 184);—‘first-born’ of Canaan Gn 10:15 = 1 Ch 1:13; northern limit of Canaanite Gn 10:19, cf. 49:13; defined as צ׳ רַבָּה Jos 11:8 (so 19:28 infr.); also Ju 1:31; 10:6 (אֱלֹהֵי צ׳), 18:28; 1 K 17:9; named with Tyre Jos 19:28 (cf. v 29), 2 S 24:6 (cf. v 7), Is 23:2, 4 and בְּתוּלַת בַּת־צ׳ v 12 (cf. v 5, etc.), Je 25:22; 27:3; 47:4; Ez 27:8; 28:21, 22 (cf. v 2, 12), Zc 9:2; Jo 4:4.—Vid. PietschPhöniz. 54 ff. PrutzAus Phönicien (1876). 98 ff. RobBR ii. 478 ff. de LuynesVoyage à la Mer Morte i. 18 ff., and Pl. vi–xi. BdPal. 3 (1898), 313 ff..

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 22 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Sidon (13); of Sidon (7); O Sidon (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 23:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.2/#tree)

דֹּ֖מּוּ יֹ֣שְׁבֵי אִ֑י סֹחֵ֥ר צִיד֛וֹן עֹבֵ֥ר יָ֖ם מִלְאֽוּךְ׃

*Word for word:* be.silent O.inhabitants of.\[the\].coastland O.trader of.Sidon \[one.who\].passes.over \[the\].sea they have.filled.you

*JPS 1917:* Be still, ye inhabitants of the coast-land; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

[Genesis 10:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.15/#tree)

וּכְנַ֗עַן יָלַ֛ד אֶת־צִידֹ֥ן בְּכֹר֖וֹ וְאֶת־חֵֽת׃

*Word for word:* and Canaan he.fathered (et) Sidon firstborn his and (et) Heth

*JPS 1917:* And Canaan begot Zidon his firstborn, and Heth;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6721/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).