Sinai
[sahy-nahy, sahy-nee-ahy]
- Also called Sinai Peninsula. a peninsula in NE Egypt, at the N end of the Red Sea between the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba. 230 miles (370 km) long.
- Mount, the mountain, in S Sinai, of uncertain identity, on which Moses received the law. Ex.
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Contemporary Examples
And, in a gratuitous show of homicidal prowess, Moses kills two assassins he meets while wandering in the desert of Sinai.
Originally it was a low-level insurgency mainly confined to the Sinai Peninsula .
Gazans have been building tunnels to the Sinai desert for years for smuggling.
Delays in our assistance are interpreted as deeply unfriendly, especially when Egypt is facing an insurgency in the Sinai.
This led to a discussion about how they maintained their ernai, sannai, sinai—second wives, third wives, or even fourth wives.
Historical Examples
The contemner of the ban of Sinai fell "stricken through" the body.
Messages from the Epistle to the HebrewsHandley C.G. Moule
Now is it strange that Sinai should have excited reverence and dread?
The Necessity of AtheismDr. D.M. Brooks
The life and property of England are protected by the laws of Sinai.
TancredBenjamin Disraeli
For has not the law thundered from Sinai, 'Thou shalt not steal'?
He has heard the voice, and seen the vision, and he is climbing up to Sinai.
Sinai
- a mountainous peninsula of NE Egypt at the N end of the Red Sea, between the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba: occupied by Israel in 1967; fully restored by 1982
- Mount Sinai the mountain where Moses received the Law from God (Exodus 19–20): often identified as Jebel Musa, sometimes as Jebel Serbal, both on the S Sinai Peninsula
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Word Origin and History for sinai
Sinai
the mountain is perhaps named for Sin, a moon goddess worshipped by Sumerians, Akkadians, and ancient Arabs. As an adjectival form, Sinaic (1769), Sinaitic (1786).
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Sinai
[(seye-neye)]
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Sinai has been the scene of fighting during the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israel conquered and occupied Sinai in the Six-Day War but returned the region to Egypt in 1982.
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