Sion

From Bible Encyclopedia

sī´un (שׂיאון, sī'ōn, "elevated"; Σηών, Sēṓn):

(1) A name given to Mount Hermon in Deuteronomy 4:48. The name may mean “protuberance” or “peak,” and may have denoted the lofty snow-covered horn of the mountain as seen from the South. It may, however, be a scribal error for Sirion, the name by which the mountain was known to the Zidonians/Sidonians, and by the Amorites Shenir (Deuteronomy 3:9). Syriac takes it in this sense, which, however, may be a correction of the Hebrew. It is possible that this name, like Senir, may have applied to some distinct part of the Hermon Range.

See Hermon.

(2) Mount Sion. The Greek form of Zion in Matthew 21:5; John 12:15.

See Zion.