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Strong's #7708 - שִׂדִּים
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Siddim = “field” or “plain”
1) valley where the Dead Sea is located
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plural in
proper name, of a location׳עֵ֫מֶק הַשּׂ vale of Siddim Genesis 14:3 (identification with Dead Sea), Genesis 14:8; Genesis 14:10 (= vale of furrows ? or (Di after Onk Samaritan of fields (= הַשָּׂדִים); ᵐ5 ἡ κοιλὰς [φαραγξ] ἡ ἁλυκή; Renan Hist. Israel i. 116; Eng. Tr. i. 98 We Israel u. Jüd. Geschichte. (3) 101 proposes הַשֵּׁדִים׳ע demon-valley).
שׂדה (√ of following, meaning unknown; following plausibly connected with Assyrian šadû, mountain, used by people whose land was mountainous (compare Judges 5:18; Deuteronomy 32:13 +), by J P Peters JBL xii (1893), 54f. and (simultaneously) Ba ES (1893), 65f. compare Wkl Altor. Forsch. ii (1894), 192; Jäger BAS ii. 282 compare Assyrian šedtum, pasture-land; Tel Amarna (Canaanite gloss) šatê Wkl Tel Amos 180,56; Phoenician שד = Biblical Hebrew, Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew, so Sirach 40:22).
שִׂדִּים plur (from the sing. שֵׂד, שִׂדָּה a plain, a field, from the root שָׂדַד); hence [Siddim], pr.n. עֵמֶק הַשִּׂדִּים (valley of the plains) the plain of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha, from the sinking of which, the Dead Sea has come into existence, Genesis 14:3, Genesis 14:8, 10 2 Kings 11:10.
