צִיּוּן
tsiyun · marker
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6725 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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tsiyun (צִיּוּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “marker”.
A sign set up to mark a place: the stone that marks a grave (2 Kings 23:17; Ezekiel 39:15) or the post that marks a road (Jeremiah 31:21).
How to say it
tsi·yun
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A post that marks a place, such as a grave or a way.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- marker ×2
- road markers ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Kings 23:17
He said, “What is that marker that I see?” The men of the city said to him, “It is the tomb of the man of Elohim who came from Judah and cried out these things that you have done on the altar of Bethel.”
- Jeremiah 31:21
Set up for yourself road markers; put up for yourself guideposts; set your heart on the highway, the way by which you went. Return, virgin of Israel, return to these your cities.
- Ezekiel 39:15
And those who pass by will pass through the land, and when one sees a human bone, he will build beside it a marker, until the gravediggers bury it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.