Bible Names

Siddim: meaning of the name

Siddim means “the tilled field.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Siddim in Hebrew and Greek

שִׂדִּים H7708

Siddîym (sid-deem') — Siddim, a valley in Palestine

plural from the same as H7704 (שָׂדֶה); flats;

Siddim in Scripture

“Siddim” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 14:3

    All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.

  • Genesis 14:8

    And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;

  • Genesis 14:10

    And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.