Zin Wilderness Region
Community Cluster · 3 senses · 3 lemmas
Lemmas in this domain
† צִן n.pr.loc. Σ(ε)ιν; name of wilderness S. of Canaan, where lay Kadesh Barnea, c. ה loc. צִ֫נָה Nu 34:4 (where LagBN 47 חצן), Jos 15:3 (van d. H. צִ֫נָּה in Jos); elsewhere מִדְבַּר־צִן Nu 13:21; 20:1; 27:14(×2); 33:36; 34:3 Dt 32:51; Jos 15:1 (all P).
† II. סִין n.pr.loc. wilderness between Elim and Sinai, מִדְבַּר־סִין, according to P, Ex 16:1; 17:1 Nu 33:11, 12; 𝔊 Σειν, A 𝔊L Σιν; cf. EbGS 2. 155 ff. and especially Di Ex 16:1.
† I. סִין n.pr.loc. Sin, i.e. Pelusium, E. frontier city of Egypt (Egyptian ʾImt = clay, of which סין is transl. (cf. Aramaic סְ��ָן clay), according to SteindorffBAS i. 599, who cp. Πηλούσιον (πηλός = dirt, mud), cf. BrugschDict. Géogr. 1081 ff.);—Ez 30:15 (𝔊 Σαιν acc.), + v 16, but here Co Toy read plausibly סון, i.e. סְוָן = Syene (v. [סְוָן], סְוֵנֵה), 𝔊 Συηνη.—On Pelusium v. Bd.Egyptian 4 (1898), 169.