This is the name of the place Jerusalem: The capital of Israel, a holy city for three religions.
Definition
the same (regularly) as H6725; Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem
Traditional renderings: Zion.
Traditional renderings: Zion.
Glossary entries
Zion Jerusalem Jebus, Jebusite Salem Ariel (Place) Hephzibah
Where it occurs
Occurrences
154 total
- Jeremiah 26:18צִיּ֞וֹן · Zion“Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.’
- Jeremiah 30:17צִיּ֣וֹן · ZionBut I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
- Jeremiah 31:6צִיּ֔וֹן · to ZionFor there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’”
- Jeremiah 31:12צִיּוֹן֒ · of ZionThey will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.
- Jeremiah 50:5צִיּ֣וֹן · to ZionThey will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
- Jeremiah 50:28בְּצִיּ֗וֹן · in ZionListen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.
- Jeremiah 51:10בְצִיּ֔וֹן · in Zion“The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”
- Jeremiah 51:24בְצִיּ֖וֹן · in ZionBefore your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 51:35צִיּ֑וֹן · of ZionMay the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.
- Lamentations 1:4צִיּ֜וֹן · to ZionThe roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.
- Lamentations 1:6צִיּ֖וֹן · of ZionAll the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter.
- Lamentations 1:17צִיּ֜וֹן · ZionZion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.
- Lamentations 2:1צִיּ֔וֹן · of ZionHow the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
- Lamentations 2:4צִיּ֔וֹן · of ZionHe has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
- Lamentations 2:6בְּצִיּוֹן֙He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
- Lamentations 2:8צִיּ֔וֹן · of ZionThe LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.
- Lamentations 2:10צִיּ֔וֹן · of ZionThe 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.
- Lamentations 2:13צִיּ֑וֹן · of ZionWhat can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?
- Lamentations 2:18צִ֠יּוֹן · of ZionThe hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.
- Lamentations 4:2צִיּוֹן֙ · of ZionHow the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
- Lamentations 4:11בְּצִיּ֔וֹן · in ZionThe LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.
- Lamentations 4:22צִיּ֔וֹן · of ZionO Daughter of Zion, your punishment is complete; He will not prolong your exile. But He will punish your iniquity, O Daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.
- Lamentations 5:11בְּצִיּ֣וֹן · in ZionWomen have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
- Lamentations 5:18צִיּוֹן֙ · Zion…because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
- Joel 2:1בְּצִיּ֗וֹן · in ZionBlow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near—
- Joel 2:15בְּצִיּ֑וֹן · in ZionBlow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.
- Joel 2:23צִיּ֗וֹן · of ZionBe glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
- Joel 2:32צִיּ֨וֹן · ZionAnd everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by the LORD.
- Joel 3:16מִצִּיּ֣וֹן · from ZionThe LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
- Joel 3:17בְּצִיּ֣וֹן · in ZionThen you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.
- Joel 3:21בְּצִיּֽוֹן׃ · in ZionFor I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged.” For the LORD dwells in Zion.
- Amos 1:2מִצִיּ֣וֹן · from ZionHe said: “The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers.”
- Amos 6:1בְּצִיּ֔וֹן · in ZionWoe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
- Obadiah 1:17צִיּ֛וֹן · ZionBut on Mount Zion there will be deliverance, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will reclaim their possession.
- Obadiah 1:21צִיּ֔וֹן · ZionThe deliverers will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.
- Micah 1:13צִיּ֔וֹן · of ZionHarness your chariot horses, O dweller of Lachish. You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
- Micah 3:10צִיּ֖וֹן · Zion…who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.
- Micah 3:12צִיּ֖וֹן · ZionTherefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
- Micah 4:2מִצִּיּוֹן֙ · from ZionAnd many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
- Micah 4:7צִיּ֔וֹן · ZionAnd I will make the lame into a remnant, the outcast into a strong nation. Then the LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.
- Micah 4:8צִיּ֖וֹן · of ZionAnd you, O watchtower of the flock, O stronghold of the Daughter of Zion—the former dominion will be restored to you; sovereignty will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem.”
- Micah 4:10צִיּ֖וֹן · of ZionWrithe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies!
- Micah 4:11בְּצִיּ֖וֹן · on ZionBut now many nations have assembled against you, saying, “Let her be defiled, and let us feast our eyes on Zion.”
- Micah 4:13צִיּ֗וֹן · of ZionRise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
- Zephaniah 3:14צִיּ֔וֹן · of ZionSing for joy, O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem!
- Zephaniah 3:16צִיּ֖וֹן · O ZionOn that day they will say to Jerusalem: “Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands fall limp.
- Zechariah 1:14וּלְצִיּ֖וֹן · and ZionThen the angel who was speaking with me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,
- Zechariah 1:17צִיּ֔וֹן · ZionProclaim further that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’”
- Zechariah 2:7צִיּ֖וֹן · O Zion“Get up, O Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the Daughter of Babylon!”
- Zechariah 2:10צִיּ֑וֹן · of Zion“Shout for joy and be glad, O Daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you,” declares the LORD.