sijon

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin Sīōn, from Koine Greek Σῑών (Sīṓn), from Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn).

sījōn f

1. (biblical) Zion (a hill in Jerusalem, Israel, on which ancient Jerusalem was partly built; a centrepiece to Biblical accounts of old days and future eschatological events)
   • c. 900 CE, Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen [The Old Middle and Old Low Franconian psalms and glosses]:

     wando got behaldan duon sal sījōn, in gestiftoda sulun werthun burge iūdae in wanun sulun thar in mit ervi gewinnon sulun sia

     Because God shall save Zion and the cities of Judea shall be established, and they shall live there, and because of their heritage they shall obtain her.

     that ic cunde alla predigunga thīna an portun dohteron sījōn

     So that I preach all your sermons to the daughters of Zion

• syōn

• Middle Dutch: Syon, Syôon
  • >? Dutch: Zion, Sion (or directly from Latin)