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# 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6725/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִיּוּן: n.m. sign-post, monument [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6725/#m2)

**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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.39.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.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

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6725.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6725/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

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).