Lexical Summary Sina: Sinai, a mountain probably on the Sinai Peninsula Original Word: ΣινᾶTransliteration: Sina Phonetic Spelling: (see-nah') Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Short Definition: Sinai, a mountain probably on the Sinai Peninsula Meaning: Sinai -- a mountain probably on the Sinai Peninsula Strong's Concordance Sina. Of Hebrew origin (Ciynay); Sina (i.e. Sinai), a mountain in Arabia -- Sina. see HEBREW Ciynay Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4614: ΣινᾶΣινᾶ (Σινᾶ WH; cf. Chandler §§ 135, 138), τό (namely, ὄρος, cf. Buttmann, 21f (19)), indeclinable, Josephus, τό Σιναιον, Antiquities 3, 5, 1, and τό Σιναιον ὄρος, Antiquities 2, 12, 1; Hebrew סִינַי (perhaps 'jagged'; others make it an adjective 'belonging to (the desert of) Sin') (Sina or) Sinai, a mountain or, rather, a mountainous region in the peninsula of Arabia Petraea, made famous by the giving of the Mosaic law. There are three summits: one toward the west, which is called חוהֵב, a second toward the east, Sinai proper so called, the third toward the south, now Mount St. Catharine. But the distinction between Horeb and Sinai is given differently by different writers; and some think that they were two different names of one and the same mountain (cf. Sir. 48:7); cf. (McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia, under the word |
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