Strong G4614Σινᾶ
(Mount) Sinai
- Transliteration
- Sina
- Pronunciation
- see-nah'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
Of Hebrew origin [H5514];
Sina (that is Sinai) a mountain in Arabia: - Sina.
Sina (that is Sinai) a mountain in Arabia: - Sina.
Meaning of the name
Sinai, "Sin [pagan moon god]; glare [from white chalk]"
Detailed definition
Σινά
(-ᾶ, Rec.),
indecl. (but τὸ Σιναῖον, FlJ, Ant., iii, 5, 1; τὸ Σιναῖον ὄρος, ib. ii, 12, 1), τό
(Heb. סִינַי),
Sinai (Exo.19:11, al.): Act.7:30, 38, Gal.4:24-25†
(AS)
(-ᾶ, Rec.),
indecl. (but τὸ Σιναῖον, FlJ, Ant., iii, 5, 1; τὸ Σιναῖον ὄρος, ib. ii, 12, 1), τό
(Heb. סִינַי),
Sinai (Exo.19:11, al.): Act.7:30, 38, Gal.4:24-25†
(AS)
In the biblical story
Sinai
Mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments
Sinai, also called Mount Sinai, Horeb, or Mount Horeb, was the mountain where God gave Moses the Ten Commandments and other laws (Exod. 19-40; Lev. 7:38; 25:1; 26:46; 27:34; Num. 3:1; 28:6; Deut. 33:2; Judg. 5:5; Ps. 68:8, 17; Neh. 9:13; Mal. 4:4; Acts 7:30, 38; Gal. 4:24-25).
In the Bible
Strong G4614 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- sina2
- sinai2
First verses
- Acts 7:30And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
- Acts 7:38This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
- Galatians 4:24Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
- Galatians 4:25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.