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Strong's #5512 - סִין

Transliteration
Çîyn
Phonetics
seen
Origin
of uncertain derivation
Parts of Speech
proper locative noun
TWOT
None
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

  1. Sin = "thorn" or "clay"
    1. a town in eastern Egypt
    2. the tract of wilderness between Elim and Sinai

Frequency Lists
Verse Results
ASV (6)
Exodus 2
Numbers 2
Ezekiel 2
BSB (6)
Exodus 2
Numbers 2
Ezekiel 2
CSB (5)
Exodus 2
Numbers 2
Ezekiel 2
ESV (6)
Exodus 2
Numbers 2
Ezekiel 2
KJV (6)
Exodus 2
Numbers 2
Ezekiel 2
LEB (6)
Exodus 2
Numbers 2
Ezekiel 2
LSB (0)
The Legacy Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number
N95 (0)
The New American Standard Bible (1995)
did not use
this Strong's Number
NAS (0)
The New American Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number
NLT (0)
The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number
WEB (6)
Exodus 2
Numbers 2
Ezekiel 2
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 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 Steind BAS i. 599, who compare IIηλούσιον(πηλός = dirt, mud), compare Brugsch Dict. Géogr. 1081ff.); — Ezekiel 30:15 (ᵐ5 Σαιν accusative), + Ezekiel 30:16, but here Co Toy read plausibly סון, i.e. סְוָן = Syene (see [סְוָן], סְוֵנֵה), ᵐ5 συηνη. — On Pelusium see Bd Egypt.4 (1898), 169.

II. סִין proper name, of a location wilderness between Elim and Sinai, מִדְבַּרסִֿין, according to P, Exodus 16:1; Exodus 17:1; Numbers 33:11; Numbers 3:12; ᵐ5 Σειν, A ᵐ5 L Σιν; compare Eb GS 2. 155 ff. and especially Di Exodus 16:1.


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Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

סִין an unused root, prob. to be muddy, clayey; kindred to the root סָאַן, whence the Chaldee סְיַן, Syriac ܣܝܳܢܳܐ clay, i.q. Chald. טִין, syr. ܛܝܺܢܐܳ Arab. طِيْنُ.

סִין (“clay”), [Sin], pr.n.

(1)  Pelusium, a city situated in the marshes on the eastern border of Egypt, now together with the whole region submerged by the sea, Ezekiel 30:15, 16 Ezekiel 30:16 compare Strabo xvii. p. 802. It is called in Arabic طينة i.e. marsh, and فرمة Farame, which latter indeed is from the Egyptian ⲫⲉⲣⲟⲙⲝ, i.e. a clayey place (from ϥ art. masc., ⲉⲣ to be, and ⲟⲙⲝ clay); as has been observed by Champollion, l’Egypte, ii. 82, seq.

(2) The desert of Sin in the neighbourhood of Mount Sinai, on the shore of the Heroöpolitan gulf, Exodus 16:1, 17:1 Numbers 33:12.


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List of Word Forms
סִ֑ין סִ֔ין סִ֖ין סִ֛ין סִֽין׃ סין סין׃ Sin sîn
 
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