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H5514 סִינַי (Çîynay) see-nah'-ee

Hebrew
Noun
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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:

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

סִינַי (si.nay) — Sinai.

§ 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

סִינַי (si.nay) — (Wilderness of) Sinai.

Combined with mid.bar (מִדְבָּר "wilderness" H4057) § 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

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

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Names of Landforms

Sinai = mountain and surrounding desert on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, also known as Mount Horeb; ► location where YHWH entered into a covenant with Israel

EXO 16:1 · EXO 19:1 · EXO 19:2 · EXO 19:11 · EXO 19:18 · EXO 19:20 · EXO 19:23 · EXO 24:16 · EXO 31:18 · EXO 34:2 · EXO 34:4 · EXO 34:29 · EXO 34:32 · LEV 7:38 · LEV 7:38 · LEV 25:1 · LEV 26:46 · LEV 27:34 · NUM 1:1 · NUM 1:19 · NUM 3:1 · NUM 3:4 · NUM 3:14 · NUM 9:1 · NUM 9:5 · NUM 10:12 · NUM 26:64 · NUM 28:6 · NUM 33:15 · NUM 33:16 · DEU 33:2 · JDG 5:5 · NEH 9:13 · PSA 68:9 · PSA 68:18

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

סִינַי n.pr.mont. Sinai;—name of mt. of law-giving in J and esp. P base

Bible Occurrences (34)

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