Bible Names

Sidon: meaning of the name

Sidon means “hunting; fishing; venison.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Sidon in Hebrew and Greek

צִידוֹן H6721

Tsîydôwn (tsee-done') — Tsidon, the name of a son of Canaan, and of a place in Palestine

or צִידֹן; from H6679 (צוּד) in the sense of catching fish; fishery;

Σιδών G4605

Sidṓn — Sidon (i.e. Tsidon), a place in Palestine

of Hebrew origin (H06721);

Places named Sidon

Sidon in Scripture

“Sidon” appears in 14 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 10:15

    And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,

  • Genesis 10:19

    And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

  • Matthew 11:21

    Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

  • Matthew 11:22

    But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.

  • Matthew 15:21

    Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

  • Mark 3:8

    And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.

  • Mark 7:24

    And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.

  • Mark 7:31

    And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.