סִינַיÇîynay

Sinai, mountain of Arabia

Pronunciation: see-nah'-ee · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5514

Meanings

proper name [of a mountain]: Sinai, name of mountain of law-giving, Identification dubious (Judges 5:5; Psalms 68:9; Deuteronomy 33:2; Exodus 16:1; Leviticus 7:38)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 35 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 19:1 Exactly two months after the Israelites left Egypt, they arrived in the wilderness of Sinai.
  • Exodus 19:2 After breaking camp at Rephidim, they came to the wilderness of Sinai and set up camp there at the base of Mount Sinai.
  • Exodus 19:11 Be sure they are ready on the third day, for on that day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai as all the people watch.
  • Exodus 19:18 All of Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because the Lord had descended on it in the form of fire. The smoke billowed into the sky like smoke from a brick kiln, and the whole mountain shook violently.
  • Exodus 19:20 The Lord came down on the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses climbed the mountain.
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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).