Lexical Summary Sidōn: Sidon, a maritime city of Phoenicia Original Word: ΣιδώνTransliteration: Sidōn Phonetic Spelling: (sid-one') Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: Sidon, a maritime city of Phoenicia Meaning: Sidon -- a maritime city of Phoenicia Strong's Concordance Sidon. Of Hebrew origin (Tsiydown); Sidon (i.e. Tsidon), a place in Palestine -- Sidon. see HEBREW Tsiydown Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4605: ΣιδώνΣιδών, Σιδῶνος (Buttmann, 16 (14)), ἡ (צִידון and צִידֹן, from צוּד, 'to hunt', in Aramaic also 'to fish'; hence, properly, taking its name from its abundance of fish; cf. Justin 18, 3), Sidon, a very ancient Phoenician city, formerly distinguished for wealth and traffic, situated near the Mediterranean on the borders of Judaea; it had been assigned to the tribe of Asher (Joshua 19:28), but the Jews vainly endeavored to capture it (Judges 1:31; Judges 3:3; Judges 10:12); now Saida, containing about 10,000 (or 9,000, according to Porter in Murray's Handbook, p. 376) inhabitants (Baedeker, Palestine, p. 433): Matthew 11:21; Matthew 15:21; Mark 3:8; Mark 7:24 (where T omits; WH Tr marginal reading brackets the words καί Σιδῶνος), |
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