Σιών

Siwvn Siwvn, indeclinable (its grammatical gender in the N. T. does not appear from the passages in which it is mentioned; cf. Buttmann, 21f (19); in the Septuagint when it denotes the city of Jerusalem
hJ
Siwvn occurs, as , (,); (); (), Hebrew @/yxi (i. e. according to some, `protected' or `protecting'; according to others, `sunny'; others besides); Sion (so A. V., but properly (with R. V.)) Zion;1. the hill on which the higher and more ancient part of Jerusalem was built (dwID; ry[i, city of David, because David captured it); it was the southwesternmost and highest of the hills on which the city stood; (many now would identify it with the eastern hill, some with the northern; cf. Furrer in Schenkel iii. 216ff; M?hlau in Riehm, under the word; per contra Wolcott in B. D. American edition, under the word; Schultz in Herzog edition 2 vi., p. 543f).2. used very often for the entire city of Jerusalem itself: and (after ); (from );
hJ
qugavthr
Siwvn (see
qugavthr, b.
b!.), ; .3. Since Jerusalem, because the temple stood there, was called the dwelling-place of God (cf. ;
kuvrio"
thvn
Siwvn
hJ/retivsato
eij"
katoikivan
eJautw'/, ()), the expression
tov
Siwvn
o[ro" is transferred to heaven, as the true dwelling-place of God and heavenly beings, the antitype of the earthly Zion: ; .*