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# סִין

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5512

**Sin** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Sin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5512/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סִין: n.pr.loc. Sin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5512/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Sin, i.e. Pelusium, E. frontier city of Egypt (Egyptian ʾImt = clay, of which סין is transl. (cf. Aramaic סְיָן 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.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Sin (2).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 30:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.15/#tree)

וְשָׁפַכְתִּ֣י חֲמָתִ֔י עַל־סִ֖ין מָע֣וֹז מִצְרָ֑יִם וְהִכְרַתִּ֖י אֶת־הֲמ֥וֹן נֹֽא׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.pour.out rage my on Sin the.stronghold of.Egypt and I.will.cut.off (et) the.multitude of.Thebes

*JPS 1917:* And I will pour My fury upon Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.

[Ezekiel 30:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.16/#tree)

וְנָתַ֤תִּי אֵשׁ֙ בְּמִצְרַ֔יִם ח֤וּל תָּחוּל֙ סִ֔ין וְנֹ֖א תִּהְיֶ֣ה לְהִבָּקֵ֑עַ וְנֹ֖ף צָרֵ֥י יוֹמָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.put fire in Egypt surely.(writhe.in.agony) it.will.dance Sin and Thebes it.is \[about\].to be.broken.into and Memphis foes of.daytime

*JPS 1917:* And I will set a fire in Egypt; Sin shall be in great convulsion, and No shall be rent asunder; and in Noph shall come adversaries in the day-time.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5512.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5512/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).