• סִינַי S 5514 TWOT 1488 GK 6099 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 ( ־סִינָ˜י 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
( סִינָ˜י 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 .— Ö Σ(ε)ινα . Identif. dub. ;
local tradition names Jebel Musa , mt. at S. end of peninsular between the two arms of Red Sea, so Rob BR i, 90 ff., especially 119–122 cf. Stanley Sinai and Pal. 42 f. al. , specif. its N. supr, Ras Ṣafṣâfeh ; but Lepsius Briefe 345 ff., 416 ff. Eb GS especially 392 ff. al. advocate
Serbal , NW. from Jebel Musa (on trad., cf. Eb ib. 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. Eb GS 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 Say Monuments 263 ff. , cf. GFM Ju 5: 5; 6:1
and
Yakut
, cited by
Id.
179 n. §, also
v.
Gall
Altisr. Kultst. 12
; on sanctity of mt.
v.
further
RS
Sem i. 110f., 2nd ed. 117 f.
Sm
Rel.Gesch.
30
.
• סֹינִי adj. gent. only c. art. = subst. Gn 10:17 = 1 Ch 1:15 a Canaanite people, in north, Ö τὸν Ἀσενναῖον ; cf. city Siânu , ‘on shore of sea,’ in Assyrian inscr. Dl Pa 282, Σιννᾶν ( acc. ) in possession of those holding Lebanon Strabo xvi. 2. 8 ( v. Di
Gn).
• סִינִים S 5515 GK 6100 adj. gent. pl. = subst .; אֶרֶץ ס׳ Is 49:1 2, identif. with Chinese by Thes 948–950 De Che Comm. al. ; but see v. Richthofen China i. 436 f., 504 , rev. by Yule Acad. xiii. 339 ; Di D u; T. de Lacouperie BOR i. 45 ff., 183 ff. , who thinks of Šina , at foot
of Hindu Kush, but unlikely; read prob.
סְוֵנִים
(or
סְוָנִים
), so
Che
Intr. Is.
275, and
Hpt.
,
cf.
already
JDMich
.
H Code of Holiness. Eb G. Ebers.
Say A. H. Sayce, Higher Criticism and the Monuments. Sm R. Smend, Alttestamentliche Religionsgeschichte. Dl Friedrich Delitzsch, Wo lag das Paradies?
Comm. Commentary, Commentaries, Commentators.
Acad. Academy (London).
BOR Babylonian & Oriental Record. Che T. K. Cheyene, Introduction to Isaiah.