H5514 - סִינַי (Çîynay)

H5514 סִינַי (Çîynay) see-nah'-ee

Hebrew

Noun

Quick Definition

Sinai

Biblical Persons & Places

Sinai Mount Sinai

A location first mentioned at Exo.16.1; referred to as (Mount ) Sinai (סִינַי), or (Mount ) Horeb (חֹרֵב), or (Mount )Sinai (Σινᾶ).

Strong's Definition

Sinai, mountain of Arabia

Derivation: of uncertain derivation;

KJV Usage: Sinai.

TWOT Reference: 1488

Outline of Biblical Usage

Sinai = "thorny"

1) the mountain where Moses received the Law from Jehovah; located at the southern end of the Sinai peninsula between the horns of the Red Sea; exact site unknown

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G4614

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

§ Sinai = "thorny" the mountain where Moses received the Law from Jehovah; located at the southern end of the Sinai peninsula between the horns of the Red Sea; exact

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

סִינַי sý̂ynay BDB Definition: Sinai = thorny 1) the mountain where Moses received the Law from Jehovah; located at the southern end of the Sinai peninsula between the horns of the Red Sea; exact site unknown Part of Speech: noun proper locative A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: of uncertain derivation Same Word by TWOT Number: 1488 Total KJV Occurrences: 35

Bible Occurrences (34)

16:1 19:1 19:2 19:11 19:18 19:20 19:23 24:16 31:18 34:2 34:4 34:29 34:32

7:38 25:1 26:46 27:34

1:1 1:19 3:1 3:4 3:14 9:1 9:5 10:12 26:64 28:6 33:15 33:16

33:2

5:5

9:13

68:8 68:17

Exodus 16:1

On the fifteenth... day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt, the whole congregation... of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim... and Sinai.

Exodus 19:1

In the third month, on the same day [of the month] that the Israelites... had left the land of Egypt, they came [to] the Wilderness of Sinai.

Exodus 19:2

After they had set out from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

Exodus 19:11

and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

Exodus 19:18

Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

Exodus 19:20

The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai [and] called Moses to the summit.... So [Moses] went up,

Exodus 19:23

But Moses said to the LORD, The people cannot... come up... Mount Sinai, for You solemnly warned us..., Put a boundary around the mountain and set it apart as holy.

Exodus 24:16

and the glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered it, and on the seventh day [the LORD] called to Moses from within the cloud.