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# סִין

Biblical Hebrew

**Sin** — used 4 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/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5d9_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סִין²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5d9_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** 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.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: of Sin (4).

## In the verses

[Numbers 33:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.12/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֖וּ מִמִּדְבַּר־סִ֑ין וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּדָפְקָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from the.wilderness of.Sin and they.encamped at Dophka

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, and pitched in Dophkah.

[Numbers 33:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.33.11/#tree)

וַיִּסְע֖וּ מִיַּם־ס֑וּף וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּמִדְבַּר־סִֽין׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from.\[the\] sea of.reed\[s\] and they.encamped in the.wilderness of.Sin

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from the Red Sea, and pitched in the wilderness of Sin.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5d9_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b4_5d9_5df/): 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).