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Strong's #05512 - סִין

Transliteration

Çîyn

Phonetics

seen

Root Word (Etymology)

of uncertain derivation

Parts of Speech

Proper Name Location

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Sin = “thorn” or “clay”

1) a town in eastern Egypt

2) the tract of wilderness between Elim and Sinai

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (6)

Exodus 2

Numbers 2

Ezekiel 2

HCS (0)

HCS (6)

Exodus 2

Numbers 2

Ezekiel 2

BSB (6)

Exodus 2

Numbers 2

Ezekiel 2

ESV (4)

Numbers 2

Ezekiel 2

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}.

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