Greek proper noun (a place) · G4622
Σιών
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the mountain; The city, i.e. Jerusalem
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Siṓn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4622is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4622
Sion (i.e. Tsijon), a hill of Jerusalem; figuratively, the Church (militant or triumphant)
The King James renders it: Sion.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Sion is rendered "the mountain; The city, i.e. Jerusalem". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Two of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "the mountain".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 21:5“Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
“Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”
Matthew 21:5Σιών
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: the mountain, and The city, i.e. Jerusalem.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| the mountainin typical sense | Tagged as
| WhereHebrews 12:22Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem… |
| The city, i.e. Jerusalemin poetical sense | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 21:5“Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- Σιὼν5
- Σιών2
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular4N-GSF-L
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular3N-DSF-L
Matthew
one use
“Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”
- Σιώνsionnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of Zion
John
one use
“Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion. See, your King is coming, seated on the colt of a donkey.”
- Σιώνsionnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of Zion
Romans
two uses
as it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
- Σιὼνsionnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: Zion
And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.
- Σιὼνsionnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: Zion
Hebrews
one use
Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels
- Σιὼνsionnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: Zion
1 Peter
one use
For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
- Σιὼνsionnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: Zion
Revelation
one use
Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.
- Σιὼνsionnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: Zion
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.