{"id":10483,"date":"2018-10-21T15:13:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T15:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10483"},"modified":"2018-10-21T15:13:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T15:13:07","slug":"what-does-zion-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10483\/what-does-zion-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does \u2018Zion\u2019 Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">What does the word \u201cZion mean\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Leika<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=========\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Hi Leika.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">The original meaning of the word, \u201cZion\u201d, is unknown.\u00a0 It appears at times to be associated with fish or fish nets, figurative or otherwise (e.g., Eccl. 9:12; Ezek. 12:13; 19:9), and at other times to mean something like \u201cstronghold\u201d (e.g., 1Sam. 22:4; 2Sam. 5:7).\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">In time, especially in Psalms and the prophets, the small area within the very ancient city of Jerusalem that was known as \u201cZion\u201d became synonymous with Jerusalem itself e.g., Ps. 48:12; 51:18).\u00a0 And the term \u201cZion\u201d is also used in Psalms and the prophets as a prophetic reference to the assembly of God\u2019s people, or even to the people them selves (e.g., Ps. 74:2; 87:5; Isa. 60:14; 62:1-2).\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Pastor John<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John,\u00a0 What does the word \u201cZion mean\u201d? Leika =========\u00a0 Hi Leika.\u00a0 The original meaning of the word, \u201cZion\u201d, is unknown.\u00a0 It appears at times to be associated with fish or fish nets, figurative or otherwise (e.g., Eccl. 9:12; Ezek. 12:13; 19:9), and at other times to mean something like \u201cstronghold\u201d (e.g., 1Sam. 22:4; 2Sam. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}