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title: צִידוֹן — Sidon · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צִידוֹן (6721), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 22 times: Sidon. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. Sîdôn. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צִידוֹן

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«צִידוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Sidon** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 22 times · **Key:** 6721 · **BDB:** צִידוֹן

### Glosses

Sidon (13); of.Sidon (7); O.Sidon (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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..

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צִידוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6721/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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;

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