Hebrew, “Tsiyyon” or “Tzion,” meaning “marking.” It is also a transliteration of Sion. In Jewish law, if something is found with identifiable makings, that object must be returned to the owner. This would indicate that we, as the Church, belong to God by our marking as Zion, from the Mother through the Son.
In Arabic, Zion means “defend.” Zion is used as a name for Jerusalem (2 Samuel 5:7). In Jerusalem there is also a mountain, Mount Zion. In Kabbalah Zion is the spiritual point from which reality emerges. This Zion is located in the Holy of Holies, the connection point between God, the Creator, and mankind, the creation.
Therefore, Zion is also Eden, as the Holy of Holies represents the garden of Eden.
In the Latter Day Saint movement Zion is God's peaceful and mankind's ideal society. Because of this, the term is most often used to an idea, as the future gathering place or city of the Saints.
See 1 Moses 9:49 & 64, 13:38-39, 16:9; 2 Moses 27:13-14; Psalms 50:2 Isaiah 2:3, 51:1, 52:8; 1 Nephi 3:187 RAV, 13:37a OPV; Mosiah 8:67 RAV. 15:29 OPV; 3 Nephi 7:43b RAV, 16:18 OPV, 9:86 RAV, 21:1 OPV; Revelation 14:1 Avahr 16:15; Doctrines of the Saints 26c:79-87,