sidon in English

noun
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a city in Lebanon, on the Mediterranean coast, south of Beirut; population 58,400 (est. 2009). Founded in the 3rd millennium bc , it was a Phoenician seaport and city state.

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1. Who are “the merchants from Sidon” who “have filled” these inhabitants, making them rich?

2. Others had come from the seacoast area of Tyre and Sidon, to the north.

3. Originally Canaan was used by the Phoenicians to designate the place where Sidon was built

4. Between # hours on # ovember and # hours on # ovember # an Israeli warplane circled over the sea between Sidon and Rumaylah, thus violating Lebanese airspace

5. Caesarea was originally called Straton's Tower after its founder Straton (Abd-Ashtart), who was probably a ruler of Sidon in the 4 th century b.c.e

6. Ointments and rubber were loaded in Cilicia, wool in Miletus and Laodicea, textiles in Syria and Lebanon, purple cloth in Tyre and Sidon.

7. Ashame thou, Sidon, seith the se, the strengthe of the se, seiende, I trauailide not with child, and bar not, and nurshede not out ȝung childer, ne to ful waxing broȝte forth maidenes

8. Be Ashamed, Sidon, says the sea, the strength of the sea, saying, “I did not travail with child [give birth], and did not nurse boys, nor to full waxing bring forth maidens.

9. The coloring matter was evidently obtained from the Murex and Purpura mollusks, piles of emptied shells of the Murex trunculus having been found along the shore of Tyre and in the vicinity of Sidon.

10. It also describes how a great multitude of people out of Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Sidon came down to the plain “to hear him, and to be healed” (Luke 6:17).

11. Says the historian Luke: “The next day we landed at Sidon, and Julius treated Paul with human kindness and permitted him to go to his friends and enjoy their care.” —Acts 27:1-3.

12. In 1229 Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Nazareth and Sidon briefly returned to the Kingdom of Jerusalem under a treaty between Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and the Ayyubid Sultan Al-Kamil, in exchange for a ten-year truce between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders.

13. Astarte, also spelled Athtart or Ashtart, great goddess of the ancient Middle East and chief deity of Tyre, Sidon, and Elat, important Mediterranean seaports.Hebrew scholars now feel that the goddess Ashtoreth mentioned so often in the Bible is a deliberate conflation of the Greek name Astarte and the Hebrew word boshet, “shame,” indicating the Hebrews’ contempt for her cult.