סִינַי
sinay · Sinai
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5514 · appears 35 times in the Bible
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sinay (סִינַי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Sinai”.
The mountain where God made the covenant with Israel and gave the Law; also called Horeb. Also the wilderness around it.
How to say it
si·nay
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
The place
Sinai ?
Today: disputed; traditionally Jebel Musa, Sinai, Egypt
A mountain in the wilderness; which one it was is not known for certain, and its location is disputed.
There God spoke with Moses and gave the law to Israel (Exod 19:20; 24:16).
Where it appears
- Exodus 16:1
They set out from Elim, and all the community of the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 19:1
In the third month after the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, on that day they came to the wilderness of Sinai.
- Exodus 19:2
They had set out from Rephidim, and came to the wilderness of Sinai, and they camped in the wilderness; Israel camped there in front of the mountain.
- Exodus 19:11
and be ready for the third day; for on the third day YHWH will come down in the sight of all the people upon Mount Sinai.
- Exodus 19:18
Mount Sinai was smoking, all of it, because YHWH had come down upon it in fire; and its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently.
- Exodus 19:20
YHWH came down upon Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain; and YHWH called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
- Exodus 19:23
Moses said to YHWH, “The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned us, saying, ‘Set limits around the mountain and consecrate it.’ ”
- Exodus 24:16
The glory of YHWH dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day he called to Moses from the midst of the cloud.
- Exodus 31:18
And he gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of Elohim.
- Exodus 34:2
And be ready for the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to me there on the top of the mountain.
- Exodus 34:4
So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones; and Moses rose early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as YHWH had commanded him, and he took in his hand two tablets of stone.
- Exodus 34:29
And it happened, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in the hand of Moses as he came down from the mountain, that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had spoken with him.
- Exodus 34:32
And afterward all the sons of Israel came near, and he commanded them all that YHWH had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
- Leviticus 7:38
which YHWH commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day he commanded the sons of Israel to present their offerings to YHWH, in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Leviticus 25:1
And YHWH spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,
- Leviticus 26:46
These are the statutes and the rules and the instructions that YHWH made between himself and the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai through Moses.
- Leviticus 27:34
These are the commandments that YHWH commanded Moses for the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai.
- Numbers 1:1
And YHWH spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- Numbers 1:19
as YHWH had commanded Moses. So he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Numbers 3:1
And these are the generations of Aaron and Moses on the day YHWH spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
- Numbers 3:4
But Nadab and Abihu died before YHWH when they offered strange fire before YHWH in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no sons; so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the presence of Aaron their father.
- Numbers 3:14
And YHWH spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
- Numbers 9:1
And YHWH spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying,
- Numbers 9:5
And they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that YHWH had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did.
- Numbers 10:12
And the sons of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran.
- Numbers 26:64
But among these there was not a man of those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Numbers 28:6
It is a continual burnt offering that was offered at Mount Sinai, for a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to YHWH.
- Numbers 33:15
They set out from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Numbers 33:16
They set out from the wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
- Deuteronomy 33:2
And he said, “YHWH came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon them; he shone forth from Mount Paran, and he came from among myriads of holy ones; at his right hand a fire of law for them.
- Judges 5:5
The mountains melted before YHWH, this Sinai, before YHWH, the Elohim of Israel.
- Nehemiah 9:13
And on Mount Sinai you came down, and spoke with them from the heavens, and gave them right rules and instructions of truth, good statutes and commandments.
- Psalms 68:8
the earth trembled, the heavens also dripped before Elohim, this Sinai, before Elohim, the Elohim of Israel.
- Psalms 68:17
The chariots of Elohim are two myriads, thousands and more thousands; Adonai is among them, Sinai in the holy place.
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