Re: Definition of the word Tsiyon ...

In article <f0a6d9f8-57f2-4294-a642-1c1970052edf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 21, 9:36=A0pm, "John Atkinson" <johna...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Since the place-name has been around for at least 3000 years, I tend
towards the view that the Israelites adopted it from the people who
occupied the area before they got there, people who spoke an unknown
(but probably Semitic?) language, and that it may or may not have meant
something or other in that language, and that that meaning may or may
not have referred to some charactoristic of the place.

Probably not Semitic -- Jerusalem was taken over from the "Jebusites,"
whoever they were, and "Jerusalem" doesn't have a Semitic etymology.
(The vocalization "yerushalaim" is Masoretic and doesn't reflect the
consonantal spelling.)

One may ask, "What are the other possibilities?"

Melchitzedek is mentioned as a Jebusite priest,
and the name translates as "righteous king",
in the time of Abraham. Could the name have
started out as "ha-ir shalom", the city of peace,
and gotten corrupted? I understand that similar
things have been suggested for Carthage.

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