Sinaitic

/ sɪˈneɪɪk, ˌsaɪnɪˈɪtɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Sinai Peninsula

2. of or relating to Mount Sinai

Example Sentences

In the case of the recently found Hippocratic medicinal recipe, a second layer of Bible text known as the "Sinaitic manuscript" was written over the initial copy.

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To make this theory accord with the Scriptural account, he had not only to shift the scene of the Law-giving from the Sinaitic Peninsula to the other side of the Gulf, but he was obliged to find another Mizraim than Egypt, and boldly sacrificed hieroglyphic, Biblical, and classic testimony, as well as that of tradition, to his own hypothesis.

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The Alexandrian, Vatican, and Sinaitic MSS., supposed to date from the fourth and fifth centuries, are of uncertain and suspicious origin, and their date is a matter of simple guess by parties whose prepossessions would incline them to make them as ancient as possible.

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He repeatedly alludes to the Phœnicians and Syrians, whose country extended from the coast of the Levant down to the Egyptian frontier, including the isthmus and Sinaitic Peninsula.

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In 1863 Dr. Tischendorf published, at the cost of the Russian Emperor, a splendid but very costly edition of his Sinaitic MS in columns, with a Latin introduction.

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