Sidonian
tsi.do.ni identifies Sidonian people, including groups, women, rulers, and inhabitants named in biblical narratives.
The term identifies Sidonian people as a named group or as persons associated with that group. The verses apply it to inhabitants and geographic associations, women, a king, a goddess described in relation to the people, traders bringing cedar, and a people remembered among those who oppressed Israel or went down with the slain.
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Sidonian people and persons · dominant
The masculine plural form identifies a people group in geographic, political, and narrative settings: in Joshua 13:6 the APB renders all the inhabitants from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim as “all the Sidonians,” and in Judges 10:12 it names them among groups that oppressed Israel. In 1 Chronicles 22:4 and Ezra 3:7, the same plural form occurs in clauses about bringing cedar wood; in 1 Kings 16:31 it identifies the people whose king was Ethbaal. The feminine plural form in 1 Kings 11:1 occurs among the foreign women loved by Solomon, while singular forms occur in descriptions such as the goddess of the Sidonians and the Sidonians among the slain.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB generally presents the term as “the Sidonians” or “Sidonians,” including phrases such as “goddess of the Sidonians” and “king of the Sidonians.” In 1 Kings 11:1 it uses the adjectival wording “Sidonian … women”; These renderings show the verse-level presentation rather than a fixed English equivalent.