שִׁידָּה, (b. h.(?); prob. fr. שָׁדַד = שָׂדַד to join) strong box, chest. Kel. XV, 1. Ib. XVIII, 1. Mikv. VI, 5. Y. Taan. II, 65ᵇ (ref. to Jon. III, 8) מה שהיה בכף … בש׳ וכ׳ what robbery they had in their hands, they restored; what they had in the safe, chest, or closet they did not restore; a. e.—Pl. שִׁידּוֹת, שִׁדִּים. Ib. IV, 69ᵃ bot. שמנים ש׳ של וכ׳ eighty metal chests were in Shiḥin; but R. G. said, a shiddah did not exist in our days; Gitt. 68ᵃ שלש מאות מיני שדים … ושידה עצמה איני יודע מה היא (not ושידת) there were three hundred kinds of shiddim (chests) in Shiḥin, but what a shiddah really is, I do not know; [comment. erroneously read שֵׁידָה, שֵׁדִים].—V. next art.