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Meaning, origin and etymology of the name Sidon


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Sidon Sidon

Sidon is the first born son of Canaan, son of Ham, son of Noah. 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, but there are a couple of options:

Perhaps it comes from the verb sud (sud 1885), 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 (Ezk 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. NOBSE and Zodhiates read Fishery.

Perhaps the name comes from the unused root sud (swd 1886), which yields sayid (sayid 1886a), 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 (si 1907), ship (although this is an Egyptian loan word) and din (din 426), judge, contend, plead (see Dan). The fragment si may even be the word si (si 1908), which denotes some unidentified wild and desert dwelling animal (Isa 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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