Signpost
צִיּוּןStrong’s H6725tsiyyun (tsiy-yun)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsiyyun is the Hebrew word usually translated “monument”, “signposts” and “marker”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.”
Meaning
- Signpost, monument, market
How it's translated
- the monument 1
- signposts 1
- a marker 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 31:21Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
- Ezekiel 39:15And the passengers that pass through the land, when 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 Hamongog.
Hebrew dictionary
צִיּוּן tsiyyun · signpost
signpost, monument, market
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “signpost” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIGN-POST, noun
A post on which a sign hangs, or on which papers are placed to give public notice of any thing. By the laws of some of the New England states, a sign-post is to be erected near the center of each town.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.