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title: צִיּוּן — sign-post · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צִיּוּן (6725), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: sign-post. BDB 1906: n.m. sign-post, monument. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צִיּוּן

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«צִיּוּן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sign-post** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 6725 · **BDB:** צִיּוּן

### Glosses

a.marker (1); gravestone (1); road.markers (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sign-post [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6725/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צִיּוּן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6725/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 31:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.21/)

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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.

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[Ezekiel 39:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.39.15/)

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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.

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