Sidon Variants

Variant Spellings of SIDON

- Alma 2:17

P: Sidon 1837 -1981 RLDS 1908

A: Sidom

- Alma 43:40

O: Siden > Sidon (may be e or o, but Skousen prefers o)

- Alma 43:51

O: [S]iden > [S]idon (e overwritten by o)

Discussion: In Alma 2:17, the 1830 compositor set Sidon as Sidom. The land Sidom occurs later, so this must just be a visual error. The other error in two verses is simply a slip of the pen.

Summary: Maintain Sidon

Other occurrences not discussed in ATV: Alma 2:15, 27, 34 (3x), 35; 3:3 (2x); 4:4; 6:7; 8:3; 16:6 (2x), 7 (2x); 22:7, 29; 43:22, 27 (2x), 32, 35, 39, 40 (3x), 41, 50, 53 (2x); 44:22; 49:16; 50:11; 56:25; Mormon 1:10

Source: ATV 3:1614, OM 365,367.