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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 986 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ZION, or See also:SION (Heb. iiag, perhaps from runs " to be dry," nqs " to set up," or is " to protect "; Arabic analogies favour the meaning " hump," " See also:summit of a See also:ridge," and so " citadel ")  , the name of the Jebusite stronghold at See also:Jerusalem captured by See also:David (2 Sam. v.) . See also:Zion (which is synonymous with the Ophel) is properly the See also:southern See also:part of the eastern See also:hill 1 on the See also:top of which was built the See also:temple, so that the name came to be given to the whole hill (2 See also:Kings xix . 31, See also:Isaiah See also:xxiv . 23 and throughout r See also:Maccabees), to all Jerusalem (Isaiah i . 27, cf. iv . 3), and even to the nation or its spiritual See also:nucleus . Thus the See also:people of Jerusalem are spoken of as " the daughter of Zion " (Isaiah i . 8), the name being often personified and idealized, especially in Isaiah ii., and in the Psalter, e.g . Ps. lxxxvii . 5, " Every one calls Zion his See also:mother." See G . A . See also:Smith, Jerusalem (See also:London, 1908) .

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