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# צִידֹנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6722

**Sidonians** — used 16 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

Sidonians [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6722/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִידֹנִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6722/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of foregoing;—צ׳ Ju 3:3; Ez 32:30; elsewhere pl. צִידֹנִים Dt 3:9 +, צִידוֹנִים Ju 10:12, צִדֹנִים 18:7 + 3 times; fpl. צֵדְנִיֹּת 1 K 11:1;—as subst. = Sidonians, coll. c. art. Ez 32:30; Ju 3:3; in earlier lit. appar. = Phoenicians Dt 3:9; Jos 13:4, 6; Ju 3:3; 10:12; 18:7(×2) 1 K 5:20 (= Tyre v 15), 16:31 (if, \[JosAnt. viii, 13:1\] Ethb. was king of Tyre also), Ez 32:30; also עַשְׁתֹּרֶת אֱלֹהֵי צ׳ 1 K 11:5, 33, cf. 2 K 23:13; named with Tyrians 1 Ch 22:4 Ezr 3:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: Sidonians (6); of \[the\] Sidonians (5); \[the\] Sidonians (2).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.3.9/#tree)

צִידֹנִ֛ים יִקְרְא֥וּ לְחֶרְמ֖וֹן שִׂרְיֹ֑ן וְהָ֣אֱמֹרִ֔י יִקְרְאוּ־ל֖וֹ שְׂנִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].Sidonians they.call (to) Hermon Sirion and the Amorite\[s\] they.call (to) it Senir

*JPS 1917:* which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir —

[1 Kings 11:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.5/#tree)

וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה אַחֲרֵ֣י עַשְׁתֹּ֔רֶת אֱלֹהֵ֖י צִדֹנִ֑ים וְאַחֲרֵ֣י מִלְכֹּ֔ם שִׁקֻּ֖ץ עַמֹּנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.walked Solomon after Astarte the.god of.\[the\].Sidonians and after Milcom the.detestable.thing of.\[the\].Ammonites

*JPS 1917:* For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the detestation of the Ammonites.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6722.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6722/): 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).