Lexicon Ciyn: Sin Original Word: סִיןPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Ciyn Phonetic Spelling: (seen) Short Definition: Sin Brown-Driver-Briggs I. סִין proper name, of a location Sin, i.e. Pelusium, east frontier city of Egypt (Egyptian ' Imt = clay, of which סין is translated (compare Aramaic סְיָן clay), according to Steind BAS i. 599, who compare II ηλούσιον( πηλός = dirt, mud), compare Brugsch Dict. Géogr. 1081 ff.); — Ezekiel 30:15 ( ᵐ5 Σαιν accusative), + Ezekiel 30:16, but here Co Toy read plausibly סון, i.e. סְוָן = Syene (see [ סְוָן], סְוֵנֵה), ᵐ5 συηνη. — On Pelusium see Bd Egypt.4 (1898), 169. II. סִין proper name, of a location wilderness between Elim and Sinai, מִדְבַּרסִֿין, according to P, Exodus 16:1; Exodus 17:1; Numbers 33:11; Numbers 3:12; ᵐ5 Σειν, A ᵐ5L Σιν; compare EbGS 2. 155 ff. and especially DiExodus 16:1.
Strong's Sin Of uncertain derivation; Sin the name of an Egyptian town and (probably) desert adjoining -- Sin. |
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