Bible Person

Zidon

Meaning: hunting; fishing; venison · Male · 2 cross references

Zidon is the firstborn of Canaan in the table of nations. The page uses a person-style entry for an ancestral name later strongly associated with the Phoenician city and people. First appears in Gen 10:15.1

AI summary: Zidon matters because his cross references place a major later regional name at the head of Canaan's line, giving genealogical shape to one of the Bible's most prominent neighboring cultures. The entry helps connect later geography with remembered ancestry. Taken together, the material presents Zidon as an ancestral marker in the genealogy of Canaan's peoples.1