צִידוֹן

צִידוֺן and (1 Mos 10,15; 1 Mos 10,19; 1 Mos 49,3) צִידֹן proper name, of a location Sidon, Σιδων, ancient Phoenician city, on coast north of Tyre (in Assyrian ‚idum( n)u, COT^Gloss; Tel Amarna ‚iduna, Phoenician צדן, Old Aramaic צידן; in Egyptian D±-(d)u-na, WMM^As.u.Eur.184); — 'first-born' of Canaan 1 Mos 10,15 = 1 Kron 1,13 northern limit of Canaanite 1 Mos 10,19, compare 1 Mos 49,13 defined as רַבָּה ׳צ Jos 11,8 (so Jos 19,28 below); also Dom 1,31; Dom 10,6 (׳אֱהֵֹי צ), Dom 18,28; 1 Kong 17,9 named with Tyre Jos 19,28 (compare vJos 19,29), 2 Sam 24,6 (compare v2 Sam 24,7), Es 23,2; Es 23,4 and ׳בְּתוּלַת בַּתצֿ vEs 23,12 (compare vEs 23,5 etc.), Jer 25,22; Jer 27,3; Jer 47,4; Ezk 27,8; Ezk 28,21; Ezk 28,22 (compare vEzk 28,2 vEzk 28,12), Zak 9,2; Joel 4,4. — See Pietschm^{Phöniz. 54 ff.} Prutz^{Aus Phönicien (1876), 98 ff.} Rob^{BR ii.478 ff.} de Luynes^{Voyage à la mer Morte i 18 ff., and Plural vi-xi.} Bd^{Pal 3 (1898), 313 ff.}