Sidon Phoenician City

† צִידוֹן 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..

† צִידֹנִי adj.gent. of foregoing;—צ׳ Ju 3:3; Ez 32:30; elsewhere pl. צִידֹנִים Dt 3:9 +, צִידוֹנִים Ju 10:12, צִדֹנִים 18:7 + 3 times; fpl. צֵדְנִיֹּת 1 K 11:1;—as subst. = Sidonians, coll. c. art. Ez 32:30; Ju 3:3; in earlier lit. appar. = Phoenicians Dt 3:9; Jos 13:4, 6; Ju 3:3; 10:12; 18:7(×2) 1 K 5:20 (= Tyre v 15), 16:31 (if, [JosAnt. viii, 13:1] Ethb. was king of Tyre also), Ez 32:30; also עַשְׁתֹּרֶת אֱלֹהֵי צ׳ 1 K 11:5, 33, cf. 2 K 23:13; named with Tyrians 1 Ch 22:4 Ezr 3:7.

Σῑδών, ῶνος, ἡ, Refs 8th c.BC+: hence adjective Σῑδόνιος, α, ον, Refs 8th c.BC+; later Σιδώνιος, Refs 5th c.BC+; feminine Σιδωνιάς, άδος, Refs 5th c.BC+:—Σῐδόνες, οἱ, men of Sidon, Refs 8th c.BC+; also Σιδόνιοι, Refs 8th c.BC+

Σιδώνιος, -α, -ον (Σιδών), of Sidon, Sidonian; __(a) the region: sc. χώρα, Luk.4:26; __(b) the people: Act.12:20.† (From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)