Word 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),
; Luke 4:26 (where L T Tr WH Σιδωνίας); f; Acts 27:3. (Cf. BB. DD., under the word; Schultz in Herzog edition 2 vol. xiv. 192ff; Schlottmann in Riehm, under the word.)