--- title: סִינַי — Sinai · The Tanakh dictionary description: סִינַי (5514), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 35 times: Sinai. BDB 1906: n.pr. mont. Sinai. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5514.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ס](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1505.md)‎ / סִינַי‎ # סִינַי «סִינַי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Sinai** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 35 times · **Key:** 5514 · **BDB:** סִינַי ### Glosses of.Sinai (30); Sinai (5) ### Meaning (OSHB) Sinai [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5514/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.pr. mont. Sinai [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5514/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. mont. Sinai;—name of mt. of law-giving in J and especially P (חֹרֵב in E and especially D): Ju 5:5 ψ 68:9 Dt 33:2 (poem), also Ex 16:1 (P) usually הַר־סִינַי (־סִינָ֑י Lv 7:38 +), rarely J, Ex 19:20, 23 and perhaps 34:2, 4, elsewhere mostly P, 24:16; 31:18; 34:29, 32 Lv 7:38; 25:1; 27:34 and 26:46 (H), Nu 3:1; 28:6, also Ne 9:13; מִדְבַּר סִינַי (סִינָ֑י Nu 1:19 +), Ex 19:1, 2 Lv 7:38 Nu 1:1, 19; 3:4, 14; 9:1, 5; 10:12; 26:64; 33:15, 16 (all P);—in view of these facts, and of E’s use of חֹרֵב (q.v.), it is prob. that Ex 19:11, 18 (in E passages) are from R.—𝔊 Σ(ε)ινα. Identif. dub.; local tradition names Jebel Musa, mt. at S. end of peninsular between the two arms of Red Sea, so RobBR i, 90 ff., especially 119–122 cf. StanleySinai and Pal. 42 f. al., specif. its N. supr, Ras Ṣafṣâfeh; but LepsiusBriefe 345 ff., 416 ff. EbGSespecially 392 ff. al. advocate Serbal, NW. from Jebel Musa (on trad., cf. Ebib. 413 ff.); v. discussion Di Ex 19:1. Against both is the working of Egyptian mines in the penins. as late as the 19th dyn. (v. EbGS 135, 148 ff., 159, etc.), involving presence of soldiers there. This, and connex. with Midian (cf. also Ju 5:5), have led to search for Sinai further NE, near head of Gulf of Aḳaba, or even in Seir, so SayMonuments 263 ff., cf. GFM Ju 5:5; 6:1 and Yakut, cited by Id.179 n. §, also v. GallAltisr. Kultst. 12; on sanctity of mt. v. further RSSem i. 110f., 2nd ed. 117 f. SmRel.Gesch. 30. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 33 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «סִינַי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5514/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Numbers 33:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.15/) וַיִּסְע֖וּ מֵרְפִידִ֑ם וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּמִדְבַּ֥ר סִינָֽי׃ *Word for word:* and they.set.out from Rephidim and they.encamped in the.wilderness of.Sinai *JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai. [Leviticus 25:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.25.1/) וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר יְהוָה֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה בְּהַ֥ר סִינַ֖י לֵאמֹֽר׃ *Word for word:* and he.spoke Yahweh to Moses on the.mountain of.Sinai (cmp) *JPS 1917:* And the LORD spoke unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying: - ← previous: [סִינִי](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5513.md) - next →: [סִינִים](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5515.md) - ↑ back to [ס](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1505.md)