Sinai,

5 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Sinai
       n 1: a mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet
            high); it is believed to be the peak on which Moses
            received the Ten Commandments [syn: {Mount Sinai}]
       2: a desert on the Sinai Peninsula in northeastern Egypt [syn:
          {Sinai Desert}]


       3: a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea
          [syn: {Sinai Peninsula}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Sinai
     of Sin (the moon god), called also Horeb, the name of the
     mountain district which was reached by the Hebrews in the third
     month after the Exodus. Here they remained encamped for about a
     whole year. Their journey from the Red Sea to this encampment,
     including all the windings of the route, was about 150 miles.
     The last twenty-two chapters of Exodus, together with the whole
     of Leviticus and Num. ch. 1-11, contain a record of all the
     transactions which occurred while they were here. From Rephidim
     (Ex. 17:8-13) the Israelites journeyed forward through the Wady
     Solaf and Wady esh-Sheikh into the plain of er-Rahah, "the
     desert of Sinai," about 2 miles long and half a mile broad, and
     encamped there "before the mountain." The part of the mountain
     range, a protruding lower bluff, known as the Ras Sasafeh
     (Sufsafeh), rises almost perpendicularly from this plain, and is
     in all probability the Sinai of history. Dean Stanley thus
     describes the scene:, "The plain itself is not broken and uneven
     and narrowly shut in, like almost all others in the range, but
     presents a long retiring sweep, within which the people could
     remove and stand afar off. The cliff, rising like a huge altar
     in front of the whole congregation, and visible against the sky
     in lonely grandeur from end to end of the whole plain, is the
     very image of the 'mount that might be touched,' and from which
     the voice of God might be heard far and wide over the plain
     below." This was the scene of the giving of the law. From the
     Ras Sufsafeh the law was proclaimed to the people encamped below
     in the plain of er-Rahah. During the lengthened period of their
     encampment here the Israelites passed through a very memorable
     experience. An immense change passed over them. They are now an
     organized nation, bound by covenant engagement to serve the Lord
     their God, their ever-present divine Leader and Protector. At
     length, in the second month of the second year of the Exodus,
     they move their camp and march forward according to a prescribed
     order. After three days they reach the "wilderness of Paran,"
     the "et-Tih", i.e., "the desert", and here they make their first
     encampment. At this time a spirit of discontent broke out
     amongst them, and the Lord manifested his displeasure by a fire
     which fell on the encampment and inflicted injury on them. Moses
     called the place Taberah (q.v.), Num. 11:1-3. The journey
     between Sinai and the southern boundary of the Promised Land
     (about 150 miles) at Kadesh was accomplished in about a year.
     (See MAP facing page 204.)
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Sinai, a bush; enmity
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Sinai, SD (town, FIPS 58900)
    Location: 44.24507 N, 97.04304 W
    Population (1990): 120 (63 housing units)
    Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 57061

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Sinai, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
     Population (2000):    133
     Housing Units (2000): 62
     Land area (2000):     0.365390 sq. miles (0.946355 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.365390 sq. miles (0.946355 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            58900
     Located within:       South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
     Location:             44.245039 N, 97.043380 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     57061
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Sinai, SD
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