צִידֹנִי
Sidonians
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 12 times (75%)
- Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 3 times (19%)
- Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (6%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 16 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6722 appears — 15 distinct verses across 8 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.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Joshua 2 verses
- Joshua 13:4 לַ/צִּידֹנִ֖ים prep det + n Gentilic mp on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
- Joshua 13:6 צִ֣ידֹנִ֔ים n Gentilic mp all the inhabitants of the hill-country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only allot you it to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
Judges 3 verses
- Judges 3:3 וְ/הַ/צִּ֣ידֹנִ֔י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms [namely], the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
- Judges 10:12 וְ/צִידוֹנִ֤ים conj + n Gentilic mp The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
- Judges 18:7 צִדֹנִ֜ים מִ/צִּ֣דֹנִ֔ים n Gentilic mp prep + n Gentilic mp Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were therein, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none in the land, possessing authority, that might put [them] to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with any man.
1 Kings 5 verses
- 1 Kings 5:6 כַּ/צִּדֹנִֽים prep det + n Gentilic mp Now therefore command you that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you hire for your servants according to all that you shall say: for you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.
- 1 Kings 11:1 צֵדְנִיֹּ֖ת n Gentilic fp Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
- 1 Kings 11:5 צִדֹנִ֑ים n Gentilic mp For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
- 1 Kings 11:33 צִֽדֹנִין֒ n Gentilic ms because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon; and they have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and my ordinances, as did David his father.
- 1 Kings 16:31 צִידֹנִ֔ים n Gentilic mp It happened, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.
2 Kings 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Ezra 1 verse
Ezekiel 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, צידני (Tsîydônîy) means “Sidonians.” Scripture first uses it in Deuteronomy 3:9. It appears 15 verses across 8 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to 1 Kings (33%), then Judges and Joshua. Dig into 15-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6722 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 →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,752
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,752 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 15 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 15 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 12 verses · 80%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 13%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 7%
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: Zidonians 9×, Sidonians 2×
- American Standard Version: Sidonians 10×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sidonians 14×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sidonians 12×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6722 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 H6722 across 16 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6722 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6722 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- Sidonians = see hunting " hunting"
- an inhabitant of Sidon
Word origin
צִידֹנִי adj.gent. of foregoing [ r.bs.ai ]; as subst. = Sidonians; in earlier lit. appar. = Phoenicians
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צידון (Tsîydôwn) (H6721) — Sidon.
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.
צֵידָנִי
- (צוּד) hunter; trnsf. flatterer, hypocrite. Gen. R. s. 63; Yalk. ib. 110 צוֹדָ׳; v. שׂוּדָנִי.
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 H6722 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/צִּֽידֹנִ֨ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 22:4 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/צִּ֣ידֹנִ֔י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Judges 3:3 | 1 |
| וְ/צִידוֹנִ֤ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Judges 10:12 | 1 |
| כַּ/צִּדֹנִֽים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 5:6 | 1 |
| לַ/צִּֽדֹנִים֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezra 3:7 | 1 |
| לַ/צִּידֹנִ֖ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Joshua 13:4 | 1 |
| מִ/צִּ֣דֹנִ֔ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Judges 18:7 | 1 |
| צִ֣ידֹנִ֔ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Joshua 13:6 | 1 |
| צִֽדֹנִ֑י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 32:30 | 1 |
| צִֽדֹנִין֒ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 11:33 | 1 |
| צִדֹנִ֑ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 11:5 | 1 |
| צִדֹנִ֜ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Judges 18:7 | 1 |
| צִידֹנִ֔ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 16:31 | 1 |
| צִידֹנִ֗ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Kings 23:13 | 1 |
| צִידֹנִ֛ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 3:9 | 1 |
| צֵדְנִיֹּ֖ת | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 11:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6722, 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 → 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 (Sidonians). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
the Greek form of the word Zidonians, usually so exhibited in the Authorized Version of the Old Testament. It occurs (3:9; Joshua 13:4,6; Judges 3:3; 1 Kings 5:6) [Zidon, Or Sidon]
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 14 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 15 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
- Deuteronomy 3:9
- Joshua 13:4
- Judges 3:3
- 1 Kings 11:1
- 2 Kings 23:13
- 1 Chronicles 22:4
- Ezra 3:7
- Ezekiel 32:30
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.
