צִיּוֹן
Tsîyôwn · tsee-yone'
Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem
Lexicon
Derivation: the same (regularly) as H6725 (צִיּוּן)lemma צִיוּן missing dagesh, corrected to צִיּוּן;
Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Zion.
Letters
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to pursue the straight path › the hand that works › to fasten and establish › the seed, life continuing
To pursue the straight path of the hand that works that works to fasten and establish of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צִיּוֹן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
154 occurrences · 154 OT · 0 NT · 46 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of zion47 · 31%
- zion38 · 25%
- in zion23 · 15%
- out of zion5 · 3%
- unto zion5 · 3%
- o zion5 · 3%
- to zion4 · 3%
- thee out of zion3 · 2%
- upon zion3 · 2%
- which is zion2 · 1%
- were come out of zion2 · 1%
- in sion1 · 1%
- every one of them in zion1 · 1%
- and of zion1 · 1%
- for out of zion1 · 1%
- is in zion1 · 1%
- shall say to zion1 · 1%
- but zion1 · 1%
- the zion1 · 1%
- for zion's1 · 1%
- you to zion1 · 1%
- toward zion1 · 1%
- saying, this is zion1 · 1%
- from zion1 · 1%
- therefore shall zion1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.