צִיּוּןtsîyûwn
sign-post, monument (2 Kings 23:17; Ezekiel 39:15; Jeremiah 31:21)
Pronunciation: tsee-yoon' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6725
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- 2 Kings 23:17 “What is that monument over there?” Josiah asked. And the people of the town told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted the very things that you have just done to the altar at Bethel!”
- Jeremiah 31:21 Set up road signs; put up guideposts. Mark well the path by which you came. Come back again, my virgin Israel; return to your towns here.
- Ezekiel 39:15 Whenever bones are found, a marker will be set up so the burial crews will take them to be buried in the Valley of Gog’s Hordes.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).