סִיןÇîyn
סִין: proper name [of a location]: Sin, east frontier city of Egypt (Ezekiel 30:15; Ezekiel 30:16)
Pronunciation: seen · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5512
Meanings
סִין: proper name [of a location]: wilderness between Elim and Sinai (Exodus 16:1; Exodus 17:1; Numbers 33:11; Numbers 3:12)
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 16:1 Then the whole community of Israel set out from Elim and journeyed into the wilderness of Sin, between Elim and Mount Sinai. They arrived there on the fifteenth day of the second month, one month after leaving the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 17:1 At the Lord’s command, the whole community of Israel left the wilderness of Sin and moved from place to place. Eventually they camped at Rephidim, but there was no water there for the people to drink.
- Numbers 33:11 They left the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.
- Numbers 33:12 They left the wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
- Ezekiel 30:15 I will pour out my fury on Pelusium, the strongest fortress of Egypt, and I will stamp out the hordes of Thebes.
- Ezekiel 30:16 Yes, I will set fire to all Egypt! Pelusium will be racked with pain; Thebes will be torn apart; Memphis will live in constant terror.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).