צִיּוּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6725

sign-post — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

sign-post tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִיּוּן: n.m. sign-post, monument tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. sign-post, monument (NH id. (צִיֵּין Pi. denom.); prob. from √ in orig. physical sense, v. especially Arabic صُوَّةٌ, صَوَّانٌ Syriac ܨܘܳܝܳܐ, cf. SchulthHom. Wurz. 57 Köii. 1. 154; > √ צין Buhl);—abs. צ׳, grave-stone 2 K 23:17; sign-post Ez 39:15; guide-posts, pl. צִיֻּנִים Je 31:21 (‖ תַּמְרוּרִים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a marker (1); gravestone (1); road markers (1).

In the verses

Jeremiah 31:21 · tree →

הַצִּ֧יבִי לָ֣ךְ צִיֻּנִ֗ים שִׂ֤מִי לָךְ֙ תַּמְרוּרִ֔ים שִׁ֣תִי לִבֵּ֔ךְ לַֽמְסִלָּ֖ה דֶּ֣רֶךְ הָלָ֑כְתְּ שׁ֚וּבִי בְּתוּלַ֣ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל שֻׁ֖בִי אֶל־עָרַ֥יִךְ אֵֽלֶּה׃

Word for word: set.up for yourself road.markers place for yourself guideposts set heart your to the highway [the].way [which].you.went return O.virgin of.Israel return to cities your these

JPS 1917: Set thee up waymarks, make thee guide-posts; set thy heart toward the high-way, even the way by which thou wentest; Return, O virgin of Israel, return to these thy cities.

Ezekiel 39:15 · tree →

וְעָבְר֤וּ הָעֹֽבְרִים֙ בָּאָ֔רֶץ וְרָאָה֙ עֶ֣צֶם אָדָ֔ם וּבָנָ֥ה אֶצְל֖וֹ צִיּ֑וּן עַ֣ד קָבְר֤וּ אֹתוֹ֙ הַֽמְקַבְּרִ֔ים אֶל־גֵּ֖יא הֲמ֥וֹנ גּֽוֹג גֵּ֖יא הֲמ֥וֹנ גּֽוֹג גֵּ֖יא הֲמ֥וֹנ גּֽוֹג׃

Word for word: and they.will.pass [those who].pass in the land and they.will.see a.bone of.a.human and he.will.build beside it a.marker until they.have.buried it [those who].bury to the.valley of Hamon-Gog

JPS 1917: And when they that pass through shall pass through the land, and any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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