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title: שִׂדִּים — Siddim · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שִׂדִּים (7708), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: Siddim. BDB 1906: pl. n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שִׂדִּים

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«שִׂדִּים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Siddim** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 7708 · **BDB:** שִׂדִּים

### Glosses

Siddim (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שִׂדִּים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7708/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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