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Lexicon :: Strong's H6726 - ṣîyôn

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צִיּוֹן
Transliteration
ṣîyôn
Pronunciation
tsee-yone'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
The same (regularly) as צִיּוּן (H6725)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1910

Strong’s Definitions

צִיּוֹן Tsîyôwn, tsee-yone'; the same (regularly) as H6725; Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem:—Zion.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 154x

The KJV translates Strong's H6726 in the following manner: Zion (153x), Sion (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 154x
The KJV translates Strong's H6726 in the following manner: Zion (153x), Sion (1x).

  1. Zion = "parched place"

    1. another name for Jerusalem especially in the prophetic books

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צִיּוֹן Tsîyôwn, tsee-yone'; the same (regularly) as H6725; Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem:—Zion.
STRONGS H6726: Abbreviations
צִיּוֺן 154 proper name, of a location Σ(ε)ιων; Ṣîyyôn, Zion (Syriac bdb085103, older form, according to LagBn 84, compare 198); — צ׳ 2 Samuel 5:7 +; צִיּוֺ֫נָה Jeremiah 4:6; — stronghold (of Jebusiteas), מְצֻדַת צ׳ captured by David, and made his residence 2 Samuel 5:7 = 1 Chronicles 11:5 (both + הִיא עִיר דָּוִד), on southern part of east hill of Jerusalem, distinct from site of temple 1 Kings 8:1 2 Chronicles 5:2 (both הִיא צ׳ מֵעִיר ד׳), not elsewhere in narrative, but often in poets and prophets: as name of Jerusalem, from political point of view (sometimes = inhabitants), Amos 6:7 (|| הַרשֹֿׁמְרוֺן), || יְרוּשָׁלַםִ Micah 3:10, 12 = Jeremiah 26:18; Isaiah 4:3; Isaiah 30:19; Isaiah 40:9; Isaiah 41:27; Isaiah 52:1; Isaiah 62:1; Isaiah 64:9; Zephaniah 3:16; Zechariah 1:14, 17; Psalm 51:20 and (בַּתצֿ׳) Isaiah 52:2; Micah 4:8 (|| בַּתיְֿרוּשׁ׳), Lamentations 2:13 (|| id.), also (יוֺשֶׁבֶת צ׳) Jeremiah 51:35; = Jerusalem also Isaiah 14:32; Isaiah 33:5+, so especially in phrase בְּנוֺת צ׳ Isaiah 3:16, 17; Isaiah 4:4; Songs 3:11, בְּנֵי צ׳ Lamentations 4:2; Joel 2:23; Psalm 149:2 (|| יִשְׂרָזֵל), cf. Zechariah 9:13, אֶתבָּֿנֶיהָ יָלְדָה צ׳ Isaiah 66:8, and even הַרצֿ׳ 2 Kings 19:31 = Isaiah 37:32 (both || יְרוּשׁ׳), Isaiah 29:8 (|| אַרִיאֵל Isaiah 29:7), Obadiah 17,21; Psalm 48:12 (|| יְהוֺדָה בְּנוֺת Psalm 125:1; so also הַרבַּֿת צ׳ Isaiah 16:1; and Isaiah 10:32 Qr (Kt ׃ בית || נִּבְעַתיְֿרוּשׁ׳); compare מְרוֺםצֿ׳ Jeremiah 31:12; in following הַרצֿ׳ might refer to temple-hill Isaiah 10:12 (+יְרוּשׁ׳), Isaiah 31:4 (+נִּבְעָתָהּ = יְרוּשׁ׳ Isaiah 31:5), Lamentations 5:18; Joel 3:5 (+ יְרוּשׁ׳); specifically of Jerusalem as abode of י׳ and place of his worship Amos 1:2; Isaiah 31:9; Zechariah 8:3; Micah 4:2 = Isaiah 2:3, Joel 4:16; Psalm 102:22; Psalm 135:21; Psalm 147:12 (all || יְרוּשׁ׳), Psalm 76:8 (|| שָׁלֵם); particular of sanctuary Psalm 20:3 (|| קֹדֶשׁ), Psalm 14:7 = Psalm 53:7+; of Jerusalem הַרצֿ׳ Psalm 48:3 (|| רָב֑ קִרְיַת מֶלֶח), Psalm 78:68 (|| שֵׁבֶט יְהוּדָה), Isaiah 24:23 (|| יְרוּשׁ׳), etc.; הַרֲרֵי צ׳ in same sence Psalm 133:3; particularly of sanctuary Isaiah 4:5 and (|| הַרקָֿדְשִׁי) Joel 2:1; Joel 4:17; הַרֿ קָדְשִׁי צ׳ Psalm 2:6 is seat of king. — See also בַּתצֿ׳, הַהרצֿ׳, ישֶׁבֶת צ׳, below בַּת,הַר, יָשַׁב.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Samuel

5:7; 5:7

1 Kings

8:1

2 Kings

19:31

1 Chronicles

11:5

2 Chronicles

5:2

Psalms

2:6; 14:7; 20:3; 48:3; 48:12; 76:8; 78:68; 102:22; 125:1; 133:3; 135:21; 147:12; 149:2

Song of Songs

3:11

Isaiah

2:3; 3:16; 3:17; 4:3; 4:4; 4:5; 10:12; 10:32; 14:32; 16:1; 24:23; 29:7; 29:8; 30:19; 31:4; 31:5; 31:9; 33:5; 37:32; 40:9; 41:27; 52:1; 52:2; 62:1; 64:9; 66:8

Jeremiah

4:6; 26:18; 31:12; 51:35

Lamentations

2:13; 4:2; 5:18

Joel

2:1; 2:23; 3:5

Amos

1:2; 6:7

Obadiah

1:17

Micah

3:10; 3:12; 4:2; 4:8

Zephaniah

3:16

Zechariah

1:14; 1:17; 8:3; 9:13

H6726

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Strong's Number H6726 matches the Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣîyôn),
which occurs 153 times in 153 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 4 (Jer 30:17–Zec 8:2)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:17 - For I will restore health to you,
and your wounds I will heal,
declares the LORD,
because they have called you an outcast:
‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:6 - For there shall be a day when watchmen will call
in the hill country of Ephraim:
‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion,
to the LORD our God.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:12 - They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion,
and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the LORD,
over the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and over the young of the flock and the herd;
their life shall be like a watered garden,
and they shall languish no more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:5 - They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:28 - “A voice! They flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, vengeance for his temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:10 - The LORD has brought about our vindication;
come, let us declare in Zion
the work of the LORD our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:24 - “I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:35 - The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon,”
let the inhabitant of Zion say.
“My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
let Jerusalem say.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:4 - The roads to Zion mourn,
for none come to the festival;
all her gates are desolate;
her priests groan;
her virgins have been afflicted,[fn]
and she herself suffers bitterly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:6 - From the daughter of Zion
all her majesty has departed.
Her princes have become like deer
that find no pasture;
they fled without strength
before the pursuer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:17 - Zion stretches out her hands,
but there is none to comfort her;
the LORD has commanded against Jacob
that his neighbors should be his foes;
Jerusalem has become
a filthy thing among them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:1 - How the Lord in his anger
has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud!
He has cast down from heaven to earth
the splendor of Israel;
he has not remembered his footstool
in the day of his anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:4 - He has bent his bow like an enemy,
with his right hand set like a foe;
and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes
in the tent of the daughter of Zion;
he has poured out his fury like fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:6 - He has laid waste his booth like a garden,
laid in ruins his meeting place;
the LORD has made Zion forget
festival and Sabbath,
and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:8 - The LORD determined to lay in ruins
the wall of the daughter of Zion;
he stretched out the measuring line;
he did not restrain his hand from destroying;
he caused rampart and wall to lament;
they languished together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:10 - The elders of the daughter of Zion
sit on the ground in silence;
they have thrown dust on their heads
and put on sackcloth;
the young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:13 - What can I say for you, to what compare you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
For your ruin is vast as the sea;
who can heal you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:18 - Their heart cried to the Lord.
O wall of the daughter of Zion,
let tears stream down like a torrent
day and night!
Give yourself no rest,
your eyes no respite!

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:2 - The precious sons of Zion,
worth their weight in fine gold,
how they are regarded as earthen pots,
the work of a potter’s hands!

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:11 - The LORD gave full vent to his wrath;
he poured out his hot anger,
and he kindled a fire in Zion
that consumed its foundations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:22 - The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished;
he will keep you in exile no longer;[fn]
but your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish;
he will uncover your sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:11 - Women are raped in Zion,
young women in the towns of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:18 - for Mount Zion which lies desolate;
jackals prowl over it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:1 - Blow a trumpet in Zion;
sound an alarm on my holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
for the day of the LORD is coming; it is near,

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:15 - Blow the trumpet in Zion;
consecrate a fast;
call a solemn assembly;

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:23 - “Be glad, O children of Zion,
and rejoice in the LORD your God,
for he has given the early rain for your vindication;
he has poured down for you abundant rain,
the early and the latter rain, as before.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:32 - And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:16 - The LORD roars from Zion,
and utters his voice from Jerusalem,
and the heavens and the earth quake.
But the LORD is a refuge to his people,
a stronghold to the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:17 - “So you shall know that I am the LORD your God,
who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain.
And Jerusalem shall be holy,
and strangers shall never again pass through it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:21 - I will avenge their blood,
blood I have not avenged,[fn]
for the LORD dwells in Zion.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:2 - And he said:
“The LORD roars from Zion
and utters his voice from Jerusalem;
the pastures of the shepherds mourn,
and the top of Carmel withers.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:1 - “Woe to those who are at ease in Zion,
and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria,
the notable men of the first of the nations,
to whom the house of Israel comes!

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:17 - But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,
and it shall be holy,
and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:21 - Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion
to rule Mount Esau,
and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:13 - Harness the steeds to the chariots,
inhabitants of Lachish;
it was the beginning of sin
to the daughter of Zion,
for in you were found
the transgressions of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:10 - who build Zion with blood
and Jerusalem with iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:12 - Therefore because of you
Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,
and the mountain of the house a wooded height.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:2 - and many nations shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
and that we may walk in his paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,[fn]
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:7 - and the lame I will make the remnant,
and those who were cast off, a strong nation;
and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion
from this time forth and forevermore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:8 - And you, O tower of the flock,
hill of the daughter of Zion,
to you shall it come,
the former dominion shall come,
kingship for the daughter of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:10 - Writhe and groan,[fn] O daughter of Zion,
like a woman in labor,
for now you shall go out from the city
and dwell in the open country;
you shall go to Babylon.
There you shall be rescued;
there the LORD will redeem you
from the hand of your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:11 - Now many nations
are assembled against you,
saying, “Let her be defiled,
and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:13 - Arise and thresh,
O daughter of Zion,
for I will make your horn iron,
and I will make your hoofs bronze;
you shall beat in pieces many peoples;
and shall devote[fn] their gain to the LORD,
their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:14 - Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion;
shout, O Israel!
Rejoice and exult with all your heart,
O daughter of Jerusalem!

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:16 - On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem:
“Fear not, O Zion;
let not your hands grow weak.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:14 - So the angel who talked with me said to me, ‘Cry out, Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:17 - Cry out again, Thus says the LORD of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:7 - Up! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:10 - Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and I will dwell in your midst, declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:2 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.

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