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Meaning and etymology of the name Sidon
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Sidon 
Sidon is the first born son of Canaan, son of Ham, son of Noah (Genesis 10:15). Siddon is also a town a little over a day's journey north of Tyre, mentioned among the boundaries of the Canaanites (10:19).
The etymology and original meaning of the name Siddon is unknown, formally spoken, but there are a couple of options:
Perhaps it comes from the verb  (sud), to hunt. This verb is is usually deployed to describe the most common way of food acquisition, especially in the early Scriptures (Esau and Nimrod are two famous hunters). Later this verb entered into the game of 'hunting' for souls (Ezekiel 13:18, 20). The letter nun, upon which this name ends, may be a remnant of the waw-nun couple that creates a localized or personified manifestation of the verb (Place Of Such And Such; Guy That Does Such And Such). Because Sidon is a coastal city, most of the hunting done there would be fishing, and so NOBS Study Bible Name List and Zodhiates' Complete Word Study Dictionary read Fishery. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names reads Fishing, and enthusiastically ads Plenty Of Fish.
But despite the consensus among scholars, perhaps a Hebrew audience saw connections between the name Sidon and the unused root (swd), which yields  (sayid), provision, food.
A third possibility rises in view of the famous merchant fleet of Tyre, the city just south of Sidon. Perhaps Sidon is a compilation of the words  (si), ship (although this is an Egyptian loan word) and  (din), judge, contend, plead (see Dan).
The fragment may even be the word (si), which denotes some unidentified wild and desert dwelling animal (Isaiah 13:21, Ps 74:14).
Besides Fishery, the name Siddon may mean Hunter's Lodge, Provision Storage, Harbor Master, or even Judge Of The Si.
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