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sinai

/ˈsaɪˌnaɪ/

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What does sinai mean?

proper noun

  1. A peninsula in eastern Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia.
  2. A mountain in Sinai Peninsula; the location where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments from God.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈsaɪˌnaɪ/

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The Law is meant to produce the same effect today which it produced at Mount Sinai long ago.
Martin LutherCommentary on the Epistle to the GalatiansTranslated by Theodore GraebnerProject Gutenberg ebook #1549
And wit well that from Babylon to the Mount Sinai is well a twelve good journeys, and some men make them more.
John, Sir MandevilleThe Travels of Sir John MandevilleProject Gutenberg ebook #782
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Ferguson is authority for the statement that "he is to be found in the wilderness of Sinai, the groves of Epidaurus, and in Samothracian huts."
Eliza Burt GambleThe God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in ReligionProject Gutenberg ebook #639
It was a heap of filth and it was Sinai.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
But here a difficulty arose--the biblical statement that God commanded Moses to "write in a book" his decree concerning Amalek before he went up into Sinai.
Andrew Dickson WhiteHistory of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomProject Gutenberg ebook #505