Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—Z

Zion

Daughter of Zion. Jerusalem or its inhabitants. The city of David stood on Mount Zion. Zion and Jerusalem were pretty much in the same relation to each other as Old and New Edinburgh. (Hebrew, Tsiyon, a hill.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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