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Strong's #5512 - סִין
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- Sin = "thorn" or "clay"
- a town in eastern Egypt
- the tract of wilderness between Elim and Sinai
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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.
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.
