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# שִׂדִּים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7708

**Siddim** — used 3 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

Siddim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7708/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׂדִּים: pl. n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7708/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] pl. in n.pr.loc. עֵ֫מֶק הַשּׂ׳ vale of Siddim Gn 14:3 (identif. with Dead Sea), v 8, 10 (= vale of furrows? or (Di after Onk Sam) of fields (= הַשָּׂדִים); 𝔊 ἡ κοιλὰς \[φαραγξ\] ἡ ἁλυκή; RenanHist. Isr. i. 116; Eng.Tr. i. 98 WeIsr. u. Jüd Gesch. (3) 101 proposes ע׳ הַשֵּׁדִים demon-valley).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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: Siddim (3).

## In the verses

[Genesis 14:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.3/#tree)

כָּל־אֵ֙לֶּה֙ חָֽבְר֔וּ אֶל־עֵ֖מֶק הַשִּׂדִּ֑ים ה֖וּא יָ֥ם הַמֶּֽלַח׃

*Word for word:* all these they.joined.together to the.valley of.(the) Siddim that \[is\].the.Sea of.(the) Salt

*JPS 1917:* All these came as allies unto the vale of Siddim — the same is the Salt Sea.

[Genesis 14:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.10/#tree)

וְעֵ֣מֶק הַשִׂדִּ֗יםבֶּֽאֱרֹ֤ת בֶּאֱרֹת֙ חֵמָ֔ר וַיָּנֻ֛סוּ מֶֽלֶךְ־סְדֹ֥ם וַעֲמֹרָ֖ה וַיִּפְּלוּ־שָׁ֑מָּה וְהַנִּשְׁאָרִ֖ים הֶ֥רָה נָּֽסוּ׃

*Word for word:* and the.valley of.(the) Siddim \[was\].pits pits of.bitumen and they.fled the.king of.Sodom and Gomorrah and they.fell to (to) and \[those who\].survived the.hill.country to they.fled

*JPS 1917:* Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that remained fled to the mountain.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7708.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7708/): 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).