סִין
Çîyn · H5512 · Hebrew · proper noun · 6 occurrences
This name belongs to 2 places
- Sinfirst named in Exodus 16:14 verses
- Pelusiumfirst named in Ezekiel 30:152 verses
Meanings
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Desert of Sin
The Desert of Sin, a desert in the Sinai peninsula between the Sea of Reeds and Dophkah, where the Israelites camped on their way from Egypt to Canaan
ExamplesExodus 16:1 Then they set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt.
Exodus 17:1 Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed by stages from the wilderness of Sin, according to the command of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink.
Numbers 33:11 And they journeyed from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.
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Sin, Pelusium
Town, identified with Pelusium; located at north-eastern border of Egypt
ExamplesEzekiel 30:15 “I will pour out My wrath on Sin, The stronghold of Egypt; I will also eliminate the hordes of Thebes.
Ezekiel 30:16 “I will set a fire in Egypt; Sin will writhe in anguish, Thebes will be breached And Memphis will have distresses daily.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מָעוֹזstronghold, refuge 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חוּלto tremble, to writhe 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִדְבָּרwilderness, desert 4
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Names of Locations003001010
- The word is the proper name of Sin, both a wilderness region on Israel's exodus route (Exodus 16:1) and an Egyptian city named in a judgment oracle (Ezekiel 30:15-16), tying the word to these specific locations.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5512. Ciyn I. סִין proper name, of a location Sin, i.e. Pelusium, east frontier city of…
I. סִין proper name, of a location Sin, i.e. Pelusium, east frontier city of Egypt (Egyptian 'Imt = clay, of which סין is translated (compare Aramaic סְיָן clay), according to SteindBAS i. 599, who compare IIηλούσιον(πηλός = dirt, mud), compare BrugschDict. Géogr. 1081 ff.); — Eze 30:15 (ᵐ5 Σαιν accusative), + Eze 30:16, but here Co Toy read plausibly סון, i.e. סְוָן = Syene (see [סְוָן], סְוֵנֵה), ᵐ5 συηνη. — On Pelusium see BdEgypt.4 (1898), 169.
II. סִין proper name, of a location wilderness between Elim and Sinai, מִדְבַּרסִֿין, according to P, Exo 16:1; Exo 17:1; Num 33:11; Num 3:12; ᵐ5 Σειν, A ᵐ5L Σιν; compare EbGS 2. 155 ff. and especially DiExo 16:1.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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