Sinaitic
Britishadjective
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of or relating to the Sinai Peninsula
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of or relating to Mount Sinai
Example Sentences
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On examination this writing revealed affinities with Sinaitic scripts discovered near Mt.
From Time Magazine Archive
Remembering that the Mezuzzah and the Tephillin are direct Sinaitic ordinances, we look at the old man writing by the gleam of the candle in the gloomy synagogue with feelings of awe and reverence.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various
Hence, it appears that the Sinaitic covenant existed, in substance, from the moment that the Lord led Israel out of Egypt.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
It is, however, more reasonable to associate it with that of the Mentiu or Semitic nomads of the Sinaitic Peninsula.126.Hence the ram-headed sphinxes that lined the roads leading to the temple of Karnak.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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.
From When Were Our Gospels Written? by Bradlaugh, Charles
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