Anonymous ID: ae4226 Nov. 27, 2022, 9:54 a.m. No.17828811   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8827

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Zion

late Old English Sion, from Greek Seon, from Hebrew Tsiyon, name of a Canaanite hill fortress in Jerusalem captured by David and called in the Bible "City of David." It became the center of Jewish life and worship.

 

Zionism (n.)

1896, "movement for forming (later supporting) a Jewish national state in Palestine," from German Zionismus (from Zion Latin-derived suffix -ismus; see -ism); the German word is first attested 1886 in "Selbstemancipation," by "Matthias Acher" (pseudonym of Nathan Birnbaum (1864-1937)). https://www.etymonline.com/word/Zion