Sion or Zion?

Weak, very weak. Sion is a transliteration of the word Zion. It boils down to a different spelling, you know like music or musick.

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Sometimes the 1611 edition had "Sion" as its rendering for the Hebrew word usually translated "Zion" but many later editions changed it to "Zion" in all places but Psalm 65:1. Some KJV editions also made the correction at Psalm 65:1, but many present KJV editions do not have that correction.

Psalm 69:35 [Zion--1560 Geneva; Sion--1602 Bishops] [see Ps. 65:1]
Sion (1675, 1679, 1709, 1715, 1747, 1754, 1758, 1762, 1765, 1774 Oxford) [1629, 1637, 1638, 1677, 1683, 1817 Cambridge] {1611, 1613, 1614, 1616, 1617, 1640, 1644, 1650, 1660, 1672, 1684, 1711, 1741, 1759, 1767, 1772 London} (1755 Oxon) (1638, 1722, 1735, 1756, 1760, 1764, 1766, 1769 Edinburgh) (1762 Dublin) (1746 Leipzig) (1816 Albany) (1828 MH)
Zion (1728, 1768, 1769 Oxford, SRB) [1743, 1760, 1769 Cambridge, DKJB]

Psalm 65:1 [Zion--1560 Geneva, NKJV; Sion--1602 Bishops] [see Ps. 69:35}
Zion [1817, 1873, 2005, 2011 Cambridge] {1660, 1879 London} (1756, 1760, 1769, 1787, 1789, 1791, 1793, 1810, 1820, 1842, 1858 Edinburgh) (1860, 1866 Glasgow) (1700 MP) (1782 Aitken) (1791, 1816 Collins) (1801 Hopkins) (1802, 1813, 1815 Carey) (1803 Etheridge) (1807 Johnson) (1809, 1810, 1818, 1826, 1828 Boston) (1814, 1832, 1835 Scott) (1816 Albany) (1818 Holbrook) (1818, 1819, 1827, 1829, 1843, 1851, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1858, 1868, 1894, 1902, 1954, 1957, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1988, 2008 ABS) (1827 Smith) (1828 MH) (1831 Brown) (1832 PSE) (1843 AFBS) (1846 Portland) (1845, 1854, 1857, 1876 Harding) (1876 Porter) (1910 Collins) (1911 TCE) (1924, 1958 Hertel) (1948 WSE) (1968 Royal) (1975 Open) (CSB) (RRB) (LASB) (1984, 1991 AMG) (KJRLB) (1994, 2000, 2002 ZOND) (TPB) (HPB) (2006 PENG) (2008, 2010, 2011 HEND) (NHPB) (ASB) (1833 WEB) (1842 Bernard)

Sion (1769 Oxford, SRB) [1629, 1769 Cambridge, DKJB] {1611 London}

 

There are two different Hebrew words and one Greek word at play here. The Hebrew word in Deut. 4:48 is }Ùo)yi&, rightly transliterated as Sion. This is the only place in the entire OT that this Hebrew word occurs, so it is a different place from Zion (OèYic÷), which occurs many times in the OT. In the NT there is only one Greek word, Sion, rightly transliterated as Sion.

So in my view there are no translation errors concerning Sion/Zion in the KJV or any other version that transliterates this way. The NT Sion is the same as the OT Zion, just transliterated differently since it came from a different language.

One word for kung fu in Chinese is 拳法, transliterated ch'uan fa into English. The same word is used in Japanese and transliterated as kenpo (sometimes mistakenly kempo). It's the same word with the same meaning, literally "fist method," a form of kung fu. Simply because the transliteration is different, the meaning is not changed.

Edited in: okay, there is just one place in the OT where the KJV transliterates OèYic÷ as Sion, which is Ps. 65:1. I'm with Dr. Bob, though, in that it's not an error of translation, just a difference in how the word was transliterated by the translator, who may have been a different man that the translators in the other passages which have Zion.