Tsîyôwn — H6726

H6726 · Hebrew — ציון

Pronunciation: tsee-yone'

Definition

locative proper noun

Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem

  1. Zion = "parched place"
  2. another name for Jerusalem especially in the prophetic books

Usually translated as

Zion

Origin

the same (regularly) as H6725

Greek equivalents

Occurrences

Tsîyôwn occurs 154 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (1), 2 Kings (2), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (1), Psalms (38), Song of Songs (1), Isaiah (47), Jeremiah (17), Lamentations (15), Joel (7), Amos (2), Obadiah (2), Micah (9), Zephaniah (2), Zechariah (8)

Strong's Lexicon — T