Lexical Definition

‎צִידוֹן‎ Tsîydôwn (tsee-done') Sidon ^N:N-M-P
or צִידֹן Tsîydôn (tsee-done'); from ‎צוּד‎ in the sense of catching fish; fishery

Sidon, Zidon.

• § Sidon = "hunting"
• Tsidon, the name of a son of Canaan, and of a place in Palestine

1) ancient Phoenician city, on Mediterranean coast north of Tyre

See Greek: Σιδών

Extended Information

name of: צִידוֹן

• Sidon = "hunting"
• Another name of tsi.don (‎צ‎ִ‎ידו‎ֹ‎ן‎ "Sidon" צִידוֹן)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Also see: רַבָּה

‎צִידוֺן‎ and (Gen 10:15; Gen 10:19; Gen 49:3) ‎צִידֹן‎ proper name, of a location Sidon, Σιδων, ancient Phoenician city, on coast north of Tyre (in Assyrian ‚idum( n)u, COT^Gloss; Tel Amarna ‚iduna, Phoenician ‎צדן‎, Old Aramaic ‎צידן‎; in Egyptian D±-(d)u-na, WMM^As.u.Eur.184); — 'first-born' of Canaan Gen 10:15 = 1Chr 1:13 northern limit of Canaanite Gen 10:19, compare Gen 49:13 defined as ‎רַבָּה‎ ‎׳‎‎צ‎ Josh 11:8 (so Josh 19:28 below); also Judg 1:31; Judg 10:6 (‎׳‎‎אֱהֵֹי צ‎), Judg 18:28; 1Kgs 17:9 named with Tyre Josh 19:28 (compare vJosh 19:29), 2Sam 24:6 (compare v2Sam 24:7), Isa 23:2; Isa 23:4 and ‎׳‎‎בְּתוּלַת בַּתצֿ‎ vIsa 23:12 (compare vIsa 23:5 etc.), Jer 25:22; Jer 27:3; Jer 47:4; Ezek 27:8; Ezek 28:21; Ezek 28:22 (compare vEzek 28:2 vEzek 28:12), Zech 9:2; Joel 4:4*. — See Pietschm^{Phöniz. 54 ff.} Prutz^{Aus Phönicien (1876), 98 ff.} Rob^{BR ii.478 ff.} de Luynes^{Voyage à la mer Morte i 18 ff., and Plural vi-xi.} Bd^{Pal 3 (1898), 313 ff.}

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