Strong H5514H5514Gסִינַי

Sinai

Transliteration: sîynay
Pronunciation: see-nah'ee
Morphology: Proper Name of a Location with no gender

Definition

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).

Meaning of the name

Sinai = "thorny"

General definition

Of uncertain derivation;
{Sinai} a mountain of Arabia: - Sinai.

In the biblical story

Sinai

Mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments

In the Bible

Strong H5514G appears in 22 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

sinai22

First verses

Exodus 16:1
And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 19:11
And be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
Exodus 19:18
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Exodus 19:20
And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
Exodus 19:23
And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
Exodus 24:16
And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
Exodus 31:18
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Exodus 34:2
And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
Exodus 34:4
And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
Exodus 34:29
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
Exodus 34:32
And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
Leviticus 7:38
Which the Lord commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai.
Leviticus 25:1
And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
Leviticus 26:46
These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
Leviticus 27:34
These are the commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
Numbers 3:1
These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
Numbers 28:6
It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.
Deuteronomy 33:2
And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
Judges 5:5
The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.
Nehemiah 9:13
Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

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