SIDON

(Siʹdon), Sidonians (Si·doʹni·ans).

Canaan’s firstborn son Sidon was the progenitor of the Sidonians. The seaport town of Sidon was named after their forefather, and for many years it was the principal city of the Phoenicians, as the Greeks called the Sidonians.

A port city favored with two of the few harbors on the Phoenician coast, Sidon became a great trading center where overland caravans met and exchanged their wares for goods brought in vessels plying the shipping lanes of the Mediterranean.

On his first trip to Rome as a prisoner, Paul was permitted to visit with the brothers in Sidon.​—Ac 27:1, 3.