צִידוֹן
Sidon
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6721 appears — 22 distinct verses across 11 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 3 verses
- Genesis 10:15 צִידֹ֥ן n Proper Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
- Genesis 10:19 מִ/צִּידֹ֔ן prep + n Proper The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.
- Genesis 49:13 צִידֹֽן n Proper "Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.
Joshua 2 verses
- Joshua 11:8 צִיד֣וֹן n Proper Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they struck them, until they left them none remaining.
- Joshua 19:28 צִיד֥וֹן n Proper and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even to great Sidon;
Judges 3 verses
- Judges 1:31 צִיד֑וֹן n Proper Asher didn't drive out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob;
- Judges 10:6 צִיד֜וֹן n Proper The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook Yahweh, and didn't serve him.
- Judges 18:28 מִ/צִּיד֗וֹן prep + n Proper There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city, and lived therein.
2 Samuel 1 verse
1 Kings 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Isaiah 3 verses
- Isaiah 23:2 צִיד֛וֹן n Proper Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
- Isaiah 23:4 צִיד֔וֹן n Proper Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.
- Isaiah 23:12 צִיד֗וֹן n Proper He said, You shall no more rejoice, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shall you have no rest.
Jeremiah 3 verses
- Jeremiah 25:22 צִיד֑וֹן n Proper and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;
- Jeremiah 27:3 צִיד֑וֹן n Proper and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah;
- Jeremiah 47:4 וּ/לְ/צִיד֔וֹן conj + prep + n Proper because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains: for Yahweh will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.
Ezekiel 3 verses
- Ezekiel 27:8 צִידוֹן֙ n Proper The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.
- Ezekiel 28:21 צִיד֑וֹן n Proper Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,
- Ezekiel 28:22 צִיד֔וֹן n Proper and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
Joel 1 verse
Zechariah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, צידון (Tsîydôwn) means “Sidon.” Scripture first uses it in Genesis 10:15. Spanning 22 verses in 11 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Dig into 22-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6721 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 22
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 22 distinct verses.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,412
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,412 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 22 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 22 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 18 verses · 82%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 14%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 5%
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: Zidon 16×
- American Standard Version: Sidon 15×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sidon 22×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sidon 21×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6721 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6721 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 H6721 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6721 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB 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.
- Sidon = "hunting"
- ancient Phoenician city, on Mediterranean coast north of Tyre
Word origin
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..
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צוד (tsûwd) (H6679) — to hunt.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
צִידוֹן
- Zidon, Sidon (Zaidan), in Phœnicia. Tosef. Dem. I, 10; Y. ib. I, 22ᵃ bot. צידן. Tosef. Erub. VI (V), 8; Y. ib. V, 22ᵇ bot. Tosef. Yeb. XIV, 7 אבא יודן איש צידן Abba Judan of Z. Gitt. VII, 5 צידן (Y. ed. ציי׳). Tosef. Zeb. I, 5 בצידן (ed. Zuck. ציידין, read: בצ׳); a. v. fr.—Denom. צִידוֹנִי m.; pl. צִידוֹנִיִּים, צִידוֹנִיִּין. Midr. Sam. ch. XXIII אבא צ׳ Abba of Z.—Kel. IV, 3 הצידניים ed. Dehr. (ed. הצדוניים); Tosef. Kel. B. Kam. III, 11 הצידו׳.—Ch. צַיְדַנְיָא, צַיְדַנְיָיה, צַיְי׳. Y. Yeb. IX, beg. 10ᵃ ר׳ יוסי צ׳; Y. Naz. VII, end, 56ᵈ; ib. 56ᶜ ר׳ צ׳ (insert יוסי); Y. Ter. XI, end, 48ᵇ צירניא (corr. acc.).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 16 distinct written forms H6721 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| צִיד֑וֹן | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 28:21 | 4 |
| וְ/צִיד֔וֹן | Noun, Proper | Joel 3:4 | 2 |
| צִיד֔וֹן | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 28:22 | 2 |
| צִיד֥וֹן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 1:13 | 2 |
| וּ/לְ/צִיד֔וֹן | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 47:4 | 1 |
| לְ/צִיד֔וֹן | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 17:9 | 1 |
| מִ/צִּיד֗וֹן | Noun, Proper | Judges 18:28 | 1 |
| מִ/צִּידֹ֔ן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 10:19 | 1 |
| צִיד֗וֹן | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 23:12 | 1 |
| צִיד֛וֹן | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 23:2 | 1 |
| צִיד֜וֹן | Noun, Proper | Judges 10:6 | 1 |
| צִיד֣וֹן | Noun, Proper | Joshua 11:8 | 1 |
| צִידֹ֥ן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 10:15 | 1 |
| צִידֹֽן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 49:13 | 1 |
| צִידֽוֹן | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 24:6 | 1 |
| צִידוֹן֙ | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 27:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6721, 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
Shares the same root
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 → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 2 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 verse parallels
This word appears in 21 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 22 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 10:15
- Joshua 11:8
- Judges 1:31
- 2 Samuel 24:6
- 1 Kings 17:9
- 1 Chronicles 1:13
- Isaiah 23:2
- Jeremiah 27:3
- Ezekiel 27:8
- Joel 3:4
- Zechariah 9:2
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
