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Σιδών

Sidon

Thayer's lists 2 entries for ‘Sidon’ fuller range ↓

G4605 Strong's Greek
Sidṓn Transliteration
/sid-one'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 9 appearances

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About this entry

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The Greek name Σιδων centers on the idea of “Sidon.” First canonically at Matthew 11:21, it enters the text early. The Greek New Testament uses it across 9 verses — uncommon. Matthew dominates its distribution — 3 of 9 verses. Dig into 9-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Sidon
Modern gloss
Sidon
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G4605 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

9
distinct verses
The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
4 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 11:21
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 11:21.
Acts 27:3
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Acts 27:3.
#1,140
by frequency
Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 8 · 89%
  • Acts 1 · 11%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 8 verses · 89%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 44%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Sidon 10×
  • American Standard Version: Sidon 9×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Sidon 9×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sidon 10×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4605 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Sidon” 10×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4605 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Sidon” 9×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G4605 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Sidon” 9×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4605 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Sidon” 10×

Senses in Thayer's

The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. Sidon or Zidon = "hunting"
  2. an ancient and wealthy city of Phoenicia…

Word origin

Derived from צידון (Tsîydôwn) (H6721) — Sidon.

Part of speech: Noun Location

Of hebrew origin [ H6721 ]; Sidon (that is Tsidon ) a place in Palestine : - Sidon.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 3 distinct written forms G4605 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
Σιδῶνι Sidō̂ni Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 11:21 4
Σιδῶνος Sidō̂nos Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Matthew 15:21 3
Σιδῶνα Sidō̂na Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Mark 3:8 2

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4605, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

Compare all same-root words → 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Sidon). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

Fishing; fishery, Gen. 10:15, 19 (A.V. marg., Tzidon; R.V., Zidon); Matt. 11:21, 22; Luke 6:17. (See ZIDON.)

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

the Greek form of the Phoenician name Zidon. [Zidon, Or Sidon]

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

hunting; fishing; venison

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word Σιδων appears 19 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 19 verses in 9 books.

19
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
19
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
9 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4605) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4605) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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