Expert: Thurman C. Petty, Jr. - 5/4/2008

Question
What are the other three names of zion / sion ?

please provide scripture refrence .

Fraternally

Sathish.

Answer
Dear Sathish,
I could not find the names you requested. However I found the following information that may be of help to you:

Zion (zī̀ŭn), KJV frequently Sion (si ’u¦n). [Heb. Ṣîyôn, meaning uncertain, possibly “sign post”; Gr. Siōn.] Originally the name of the southeastern hill of the later city of Jerusalem, the hill on which was situated the old Jebusite fortress that David conquered and renamed the City of David (2 Sa 5:7; 1 Ki 8:1). This hill lay between the valleys of Kidron and Tyropoeon, and south of the later Temple hill. When David transferred the ark into his new capital, Zion became the name especially of the place where God dwelt. Consequently the name Zion was used to refer to the northeastern hill after Solomon had built his Temple there and moved the ark into it (Is 2:3; 8:18; etc.). Occasionally, however, the name Zion seems to be applied to the whole city (chs 33:20; 60:14), or even to the whole nation of Israel (Is 40:9; Zec 9:13). The city of Jerusalem with her inhabitants is also called the children, sons or daughters (daughter), of Zion (Ps 48:11, 12; Is 1:8; 10:32; Joel 2:23; Zec 9:13; etc.). The church of the NT, the legitimate successor of the OT people of God, is described as having come to “mount Sion” (Heb 12:22, 23; cf. 1 Pe 2:5, 6), and finally this name is given to the place on which John saw the 144,000 stand with the “Lamb” (Rev 14:1).
Unfortunately the name Zion has been attributed erroneously to the southwestern hill of Jerusalem (“Upper City,” Jerusalem From 20 BC to AD 70) since the Middle Ages. This application of the name must be attributed to medieval tradition. The Jews based this on Josephus’ description of the city walls, and the Christians on the location of the church Sancta Sion, which was built on the traditional site of the Cenaculum, the room of Christ’s Last Supper, and which therefore remained the center of Christian activities in Jerusalem for a long time. The excavations of the last 75 years have proved, however, that the City of David was confined to the southeastern hill, and that the southwestern hill apparently was not part of the city until the reign of Hezekiah or Manasseh.
The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Dictionary; The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Volume 8 (Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1979; 2002), 1213.