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title: סִין — Sin · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סִין (5512), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Sin. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. Sin. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סִין

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«סִין» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Sin** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 5512 · **BDB:** סִין

### Glosses

Sin (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Sin [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5512/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. Sin [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5512/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Sin, i.e. Pelusium, E. frontier city of Egypt (Egyptian ʾImt = clay, of which סין is transl. (cf. Aramaic סְיָן clay), according to SteindorffBAS i. 599, who cp. Πηλούσιον (πηλός = dirt, mud), cf. BrugschDict. Géogr. 1081 ff.);—Ez 30:15 (𝔊 Σαιν acc.), + v 16, but here Co Toy read plausibly סון, i.e. סְוָן = Syene (v. \[סְוָן\], סְוֵנֵה), 𝔊 Συηνη.—On Pelusium v. Bd.Egyptian 4 (1898), 169.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סִין» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5512/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 30:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.15/)

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וְשָׁפַכְתִּ֣י חֲמָתִ֔י עַל־סִ֖ין מָע֣וֹז מִצְרָ֑יִם וְהִכְרַתִּ֖י אֶת־הֲמ֥וֹן נֹֽא׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.pour.out rage my on Sin the.stronghold of.Egypt and I.will.cut.off (et) the.multitude of.Thebes

*JPS 1917:* And I will pour My fury upon Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.

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[Ezekiel 30:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.16/)

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וְנָתַ֤תִּי אֵשׁ֙ בְּמִצְרַ֔יִם ח֤וּל תָּחוּל֙ סִ֔ין וְנֹ֖א תִּהְיֶ֣ה לְהִבָּקֵ֑עַ וְנֹ֖ף צָרֵ֥י יוֹמָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.put fire in Egypt surely.(writhe.in.agony) it.will.dance Sin and Thebes it.is \[about\].to be.broken.into and Memphis foes of.daytime

*JPS 1917:* And I will set a fire in Egypt; Sin shall be in great convulsion, and No shall be rent asunder; and in Noph shall come adversaries in the day-time.

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