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Definition of Zion in English: Zion(also Sion) noun ˈzʌɪənˈzaɪən 1The hill of Jerusalem on which the city of David was built. - 1.1 Jerusalem.
- 1.2 The Jewish people or religion.
Example sentencesExamples - A major personality among the Hovevi Zion was Judah Leob Pinsker.
2(in Christian thought) the heavenly city or kingdom of heaven. Example sentencesExamples - The theme then, is the fear of freedom - that maybe Nirvana / Mecca / Heaven / Zion isn't that great.
- It was the dull glazed look that tells you being a cashier is not a stepping stone across the river of life to Zion on the other shore; she will be a cashier in one form or another forever.
- Twenty-three years after Marley went home to Zion, he still is heralded by many as a voice for the sufferers, for the poor, for those maligned by the majority.
Synonyms paradise, nirvana, the kingdom of heaven, the promised land, the heavenly kingdom, the city of god, the celestial city, the abode of god, the abode of the saints, the abode of the angels, abraham's bosom, the empyrean - 2.1 The Christian Church.
Example sentencesExamples - In the New Testament, Zion represents the Church.
3A land of future promise or return from exile. Example sentencesExamples - In 1948, the world looked on as the Jews returned to Zion - the Jewish people emerging from the ashes of the Holocaust, back in their own land.
- I'm wondering if that society can be the Zion which will always be a safe haven for Jewish people?
- Additional factors worked for assimilation in Mormon society; those already in Utah understood the desire of the newcomers to be in Zion and felt a religious obligation to accept and love their brothers and sisters in the gospel.
- More than a century after Young founded a new Zion on the western frontier, the region still functions as a quasi-theocracy.
- Protestant America in the nineteenth century viewed this as a ‘Christian nation,’ even ‘God's true Zion.’
- He used his works and sermons to proclaim himself a prophet, and supported efforts to migrate with his congregation to Sierra Leone where they would set up a liberated and independent Black society, a new Zion.
- With an eye for detail and a metaphorical imagination, Chisholm explores what it means to be ‘footloose’ in a dream that pulled so many dreamers toward the American Zion.
- Seen this way, the return to Zion represents the completion of the promise made to Abraham.
- 3.1 (among Jews) Israel.
- 3.2 (among Rastafarians) Africa.
Origin Old English, from ecclesiastical Latin Sion, from Hebrew ṣīyōn. Rhymes Brian, cyan, Gaian, Geminian, Hawaiian, ion, iron, Ixion, lion, Lyon, Mayan, Narayan, O'Brien, Orion, Paraguayan, prion, Ryan, scion, Uruguayan Definition of Zion in US English: Zion(also Sion) nounˈzīənˈzaɪən 1The hill of Jerusalem on which the city of David was built. - 1.1 The citadel of ancient Jerusalem.
Example sentencesExamples - A telling aspect of such an argument is the fact that the entire Chapter 54 of Isaiah is addressed to Jerusalem / Zion.
- Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David.
- 1.2 Jerusalem.
- 1.3 The Jewish people or religion.
Example sentencesExamples - A major personality among the Hovevi Zion was Judah Leob Pinsker.
2(in Christian thought) the heavenly city or kingdom of heaven. Example sentencesExamples - The theme then, is the fear of freedom - that maybe Nirvana / Mecca / Heaven / Zion isn't that great.
- It was the dull glazed look that tells you being a cashier is not a stepping stone across the river of life to Zion on the other shore; she will be a cashier in one form or another forever.
- Twenty-three years after Marley went home to Zion, he still is heralded by many as a voice for the sufferers, for the poor, for those maligned by the majority.
Synonyms paradise, nirvana, the kingdom of heaven, the promised land, the heavenly kingdom, the city of god, the celestial city, the abode of god, the abode of the saints, the abode of the angels, abraham's bosom, the empyrean - 2.1 The Christian Church.
Example sentencesExamples - In the New Testament, Zion represents the Church.
3(among Rastafarians) Africa.
Origin Old English, from ecclesiastical Latin Sion, from Hebrew ṣīyōn. |