Word

צִיּוּן

tsîyûwn · H6725 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

guidepost, marker, sign

Marker indicating a place of significance or direction pointer

Examples
2 Kings 23:17 Then he said, “What is this gravestone there that I see?” And the men of the city told him, “It is the grave of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel.”
Jeremiah 31:21 “Set up roadmarks for yourself, Place guideposts for yourself; Direct your mind to the highway, The way by which you went. Return, O virgin of Israel, Return to these your cities.
Ezekiel 39:15 “As those who pass through the land pass through and anyone sees a human bone, then he will set up a marker by it until the burial detail has buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 2 groups

הַלָּזthis 1
רָאָהto see 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בָּנָהto build, to rebuild, to establish 1
נָצַבto stand 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מָהwhat?, why? 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Monuments001003002004: צִיּוּן denotes a sign, marker, or gravestone, as of the gravestone Josiah asks about at Bethel in 2 Kings 23:17, the roadmarks Israel is told to set up for her return in Jeremiah 31:21, and the marker set beside a human bone until it can be buried in Ezekiel 39:15.

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

צִיָּה tsîyâh · H6723 · drought, dry land, desert · 16×צִיִּי tsîyîy · H6728 · ship, wild animals · 6×צִיּוּןtsîyûwn · H6725צִיוֹן tsîyôwn · H6724 · dry land, desert · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6725. tsiyyun צִיּוּן noun masculine sign-post, monument (Late Hebrew id. (צִיֵּין Pi`el…

H6725. tsiyyun
צִיּוּן noun masculine sign-post, monument (Late Hebrew id. (צִיֵּין Pi`el denominative); probably from √ in original physical sense, see especially Arabic , Syriac , compare SchulthHom. Wurz. 57 Köii 1, 154; > √צין Buhl.); — absolute ׳צ, grave-stone 2Ki 23:17; sign-post Eze 39:15; guide-posts, plural צִיֻּנִים Jer 31:21 (|| תַּמְרוּרִים).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Monuments3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0