Sion, Mount
Sion, Mount
the name of two hills in the Scriptures.
1. (Heb. har Sion’, ] ; Samar.] ; Sept. ; Vulg. mons Sion.) One of the various names of Mount Hermon which are fortunately preserved, all not improbably more ancient than Hermon (q.v.) itself. It occurs in Deu 4:48 only, and is interpreted by the lexicographers to mean lofty. Furst conjectures that these various appellations were the names of separate peaks or portions of the mountain. Some have supposed that Zion in Psa 133:3 is a variation of this Sion; but there is no warrant for this beyond the fact that so doing overcomes a difficulty of interpretation in that passage.
2. ( ) The Greek form of the Hebrew name Zion (Tsion), the famous Mount of the Temple (1Ma 4:37; 1Ma 4:60; 1Ma 5:54; 1Ma 6:48; 1Ma 6:62; 1Ma 7:33; 1Ma 10:11; 1Ma 14:27; Heb 12:22; Rev 14:1). In the books of Maccabees the expression is always Mount Sion. In the other Apocryphal books the name Sion is alone employed. The New Test. usually employs the simple form Sion (Mat 21:5; Joh 12:15; Rom 9:33; Rom 11:26; 1Pe 2:6); Further, in the Maccabees the name unmistakably denotes the mount on which the Temple was built; on which the Mosque of the Aksa, with its attendant mosques of Omar and the Mogrebbins, now stands. The first of the passages just quoted is enough to decide this. If it can be established that Zion in the Old Test. means the same locality with Sion in the books of Maccabees, one of the greatest puzzles of Jerusalem topography will be solved.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Sion, Mount
A name of Mount Hermon. (See HERMON.) Deu 4:48, “lofty,” “upraised.” Different from Zion. Shenir and Sirion mean “the glittering breast-plate of ice”.