The Hebrew word for Zion, tzion (ציון), can be translated as “clue” or “marker.” The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, from righteous memory, states that the Jewish people are called G-d Tzion by their study of Jewish texts and the fulfillment of commandments. As a result, they are distinguished or characterized by their uniqueness. In Jewish law, it says that if someone finds an object that has identifiable markings, if the original owner has these identifiers, the person must return the object. Likewise, the Jewish people are like the lost object, and as a result of their fulfillment of God`s commandments, they are only set aside as Tzion (ציון). For this reason, when the Messiah comes, God, as the owner of this lost object, will be able to recover the Jewish people from the nations of the world. In many later writings, especially in poetic sources, Zion seems to be the equivalent of Jerusalem; or in parallelism (Psalm 102:21; Amos 1:2; Micah 3:10–12; Zechariah 1:14–17; 8:3; Zechariah 3:16) or alone (Jeremiah 3:14; Lamentations 5:11); Again, many references for Temple Hill will work just as well. The term “daughter of Zion” is applied to captive Jews (Lamentations 4:22), but in other references to the people of Jerusalem (Isaiah 1:8; 52:2; Jeremiah 4:31, etc.). If we get to the Apocrypha, there are 2. The many references in Ezdra in which Zion is used for the captive people of Judah (2:40; 3:2, 31; 10:20, 39, 44), but “Mount Zion” in this and other books (e.g., 1 Macc 4:37-60; 5:54; 6:48-62, etc.) is still the Temple Mount. The form ציון (Tzion, Tiberian vocalization: Ṣiyyôn) appears 108 times in the Hebrew Bible and once with the article HaTzion. [7] [8] Zion (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן Ṣīyyōn, LXX Σιών, also transliterated Zion,[1] Tzion, Zion, Tsiyyon)[2] is a place name in the Hebrew Bible, used as a synonym for Jerusalem,[3][4] as well as the Land of Israel as a whole (see Names of Jerusalem).
In Kabbalah, the esoteric reference is made to the fact that Tzion is the spiritual point from which reality emerges, which is located in the sanctuary of the first, second and third temples. [11] The term Tzion referred to the Davidic area of Jerusalem in which the fortress was located and, like Synekdoch, was used for the entire city of Jerusalem; and later, when Solomon`s temple was built on the adjacent Mount Moriah (which later became known as the Temple Mount), the meanings of the term Tzion were extended by Synekdoche to the additional meanings of the temple itself, the hill on which the temple stood, the whole city of Jerusalem, all the biblical land of Israel. and “The World to Come,” the Jewish understanding of life after death. The term “Zionism,” coined by Austrian Nathan Birnbaum, was derived in 1890 from the German translation of Tzion in his journal Selbstemanzipation. [12] Zionism as a modern political movement began in 1897 and supported a “national home” and later a state for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, although the idea has existed since the end of the independent Jewish regime. The Zionist movement declared the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 according to the United Nations partition plan for Palestine. Since then, and with different ideologies, Zionists have focused on the development and protection of this state. Tsade is usually rendered by z in English translations of the Bible, hence the spelling Zion (not Tzion). This convention apparently comes from German spelling,[9] where z is always pronounced [t͡s]. The Hebrew name Tzion (ציון) or “Zion” appears at least 157 times in the Bible. Here are some examples of verses from the Jewish Bible.
Let`s discover the meaning of the word Zion. Of the 152 mentions, 26 cases are in the phrase “daughter of Zion” (Hebrew “bat Tzion”). It is a personification of the city of Jerusalem or its inhabitants. [10] (1) The proximity of the place to the only known source, today the “source of the Virgin”, formerly called GIHON (who sees). Based on our knowledge of other ancient sites across Palestine, as well as common sense, it is hard to believe that the original inhabitants of this site could have made any other place their headquarters with such a rich spring on their doorstep. (4) The archaeological remains on these mounds found by Warren and Professor Guthe, and in particular in the recent excavations of Captain Parker (see Jerusalem), undoubtedly show that this was the first pre-Israelite settlement. Vast curves and rock cuts, cave dwellings and tombs, as well as huge quantities of ancient “Amorites” (which can be commonly called “Jebusites”) show that the site must have been inhabited several centuries before the time of David. The reverse is also true; at no other part of the Jerusalem site has much such ancient pottery been found. Considerable confusion has been caused in the past by the lack of a clear understanding of the different places, each of which has been called “Zion” over the centuries. This will make things clearer if we take the application of the name: in David`s day; in the early prophets, etc.; in late poetic writings and in the Apocrypha; and in Christian times. For example, the reference to the “precious cornerstone” of the New Jerusalem in the book of Isaiah 28:16 is identified in Islamic science as the black stone of the Kaaba.
[16] According to ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (1292-1350), this interpretation comes from the People of Scripture, although earlier Christian scholars identify the cornerstone with Jesus. [16] Joel 2:1 Sound the trumpet in Zion and sound the alarm on my holy mountain; make all the inhabitants of the country tremble; for the day of Yahweh is coming, for it is near; 2:15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: 2:23 And rejoice, then, children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh your God; for he has given you the first rain moderately, and he will bring rain, the first rain, and the last rain upon you in the first month. 2:32 And it shall come to pass that whosoever calls upon the name of Yahweh shall be delivered; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as Yahweh said, and in the rest which Yahweh shall call. 3:16 And Yahweh shall also roar from Zion, and speak His voice from Jerusalem. Heaven and earth will tremble; but Yahweh will be the hope of his people and the strength of the children of Israel. 3:17 And so shall ye know that I am Yahweh your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain; then Jerusalem shall be holy, and no stranger shall pass through it.