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title: סִינִים — Sinim · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סִינִים (5515), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Sinim. BDB 1906: adj.gent.pl. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סִינִים

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«סִינִים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Sinim** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 5515 · **BDB:** סִינִים

### Glosses

of.Sinim (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Sinim [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5515/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent.pl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5515/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent.pl. = subst.; אֶרֶץ ס׳ Is 49:12, identif. with Chinese by Thes948–950 De CheComm. al.; but see v. RichthofenChina i. 436 f., 504, rev. by YuleAcad. xiii. 339; Di Du; T. de LacouperieBOR i. 45 ff., 183 ff., who thinks of Šina, at foot of Hindu Kush, but unlikely; read prob. סְוֵנִים (or סְוָנִים), so CheIntr. Is. 275, and Hpt., cf. already JDMich.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סִינִים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5515/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 49:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.12/)

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הִנֵּה־אֵ֕לֶּה מֵרָח֖וֹק יָבֹ֑אוּ וְהִֽנֵּה־אֵ֙לֶּה֙ מִצָּפ֣וֹן וּמִיָּ֔ם וְאֵ֖לֶּה מֵאֶ֥רֶץ סִינִֽים׃

*Word for word:* here! these from a.distance they.will.come and here! these from.\[the\] north and from.\[the\] west and these from the.land of.Sinim

*JPS 1917:* Behold, these shall come from far; and, lo, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Sinim.

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