Lexical Summary Tsidon: a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast, also a son of Canaan Original Word: צִידוֹןTransliteration: Tsidon Phonetic Spelling: (tsee-done') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast, also a son of Canaan Meaning: Sidon -- a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast, also a son of Canaan Strong's Concordance Sidon, Zidon Or Tsiydon {tsee-done'}; from tsuwd in the sense of catching fish; fishery; Tsidon, the name of a son of Canaan, and of a place in Palestine -- Sidon, Zidon. see HEBREW tsuwd Brown-Driver-Briggs H6721. Tsidon צִידוֺן and (Genesis 10:15, 19; 49:3) צִידֹן proper name, of a location Sidon, Σιδων, ancient Phoenician city, on coast north of Tyre (in Assyrian ‚idum( n)u, COTGloss; Tel Amarna ‚iduna, Phoenician צדן, Old Aramaic צידן; in Egyptian D±-(d)u-na, WMMAs.u.Eur.184); — 'first-born' of Canaan 10:15 = 1 Chronicles 1:13; northern limit of Canaanite Genesis 10:19, compare 49:13 defined as ׳צ רַבָּה Joshua 11:8 (so 19:28 below); also Judges 1:31; 10:6 (צ ׳אֱהֵֹי), 18:28; 1 Kings 17:9; named with Tyre Joshua 19:28 (compare 19:29), 2 Samuel 24:6 (compare 24:7), Isaiah 23:2, 4 and בַּתצֿ ׳בְּתוּלַת 23:12 (compare 23:5 etc.), Jeremiah 25:22; 27:3; 47:4; Ezekiel 27:8; 28:21-22, (compare 28:2; 28:12), Zechariah 9:2; Joel 4:4. — See PietschmPhöniz. 54 ff. PrutzAus Phönicien (1876), 98 ff. RobBR ii.478 ff. de LuynesVoyage à la mer Morte i 18 ff., and Plural vi-xi. BdPal 3 (1898), 313 ff. |
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