Strong H6721H6721Gצִידוֹן

Sidon

Transliteration: tsîydôn tsîydôn
Pronunciation: {tsee-done'} tsee-done'
Morphology: Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person

Definition

A man of the Canaanites living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.15;
son of: Canaan (H3667);
brother of: Heth (H2845), Jebusite (H2983), Amorite (H567), Girgashite (H1622), Hivite (H2340), Arkite (H6208), Sinite (H5513), Arvadite (H721), Zemarite (H6786) and Hamathite (H2577)

Meaning of the name

Sidon = "hunting"

General definition

From H6679 in the sense of catching fish;
fishery;
{Tsidon} the name of a son of {Canaan} and of a place in Palestine: - {Sidon} Zidon.

In the biblical story

Sidon

Firstborn son of Canaan, ancestor of the Sidonians.

Sidon was the firstborn son of Canaan and the ancestor of the Sidonian people.

In the Bible

Strong H6721G appears in 2 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

sidon1
zidon1

First verses

Genesis 10:15
And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
1 Chronicles 1:13
And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,

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