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Zion (1903), Ephraim Moses Lilien. Zion (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן, romanized: Ṣīyyōn; [a] Biblical Greek: Σιών) is a placename in the Tanakh, often used as a synonym for Jerusalem [3] [4] as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole. The name is found in 2 Samuel , one of the books of the Tanakh dated to approximately the mid-6th century BCE.
Zion is a given name and surname derived from the ancient Canaanite hill fortress in Jerusalem called the City of David. [1] It is less commonly spelled Sion , [ 2 ] Tzion , Tsion , Tsiyon , Seyon , or Tsiyyon . [ 3 ]
Mount Zion (Hebrew: הר צִיּוֹן Har Tsiyyon) was originally the name of the hill where the Jebusite fortress stood, but the name was later applied to the Temple Mount just to the north of the fortress, also known as Mount Moriah, possibly also referred to as "Daughter of Zion" (i.e., as a protrusion of Mount Zion proper).
Zayin (also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician zayn 𐤆, Hebrew zayīn ז , Aramaic zain 𐡆, Syriac zayn ܙ, and Arabic zāy ز . It represents the sound . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek zeta (Ζ), Etruscan z, Latin Z, and Cyrillic Ze З, as well as Ж.
The return to Zion (Hebrew: שִׁיבָת צִיּוֹן or שבי ציון, Shivat Tzion or Shavei Tzion, lit. ' Zion returnees ' ) is an event recorded in Ezra–Nehemiah of the Hebrew Bible , in which the Jews of the Kingdom of Judah —subjugated by the Neo-Babylonian Empire —were freed from the Babylonian captivity following the Persian ...
Return to Zion (Hebrew: שִׁיבָת צִיּוֹן or שבי ציון, Shivat Tzion or Shavei Tzion, lit. ' Zion returnees ' ) is an event recorded in Ezra–Nehemiah of the Hebrew Bible , in which the Jews of the Kingdom of Judah —subjugated by the Neo-Babylonian Empire —were freed from the Babylonian captivity following the Persian ...
As with all handwriting, cursive Hebrew displays considerable individual variation. The forms in the table below are representative of those in present-day use. [5] The names appearing with the individual letters are taken from the Unicode standard and may differ from their designations in the various languages using them—see Hebrew alphabet § Pronunciation for variation in letter names.
As a result, the 22 letters of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet numbered less than the consonant phonemes of ancient Biblical Hebrew; in particular, the letters ח, ע, ש could each mark two different phonemes. [28] After a sound shift the letters ח ,ע became homophones, but (except in Samaritan Hebrew) ש remained