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# סִינִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5515

**Sinim** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Sinim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5515/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סִינִים: adj.gent.pl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5515/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent.pl. = subst.; אֶרֶץ ס׳ Is 49:12, identif. with Chinese by Thes948–950 De CheComm. al.; but see v. RichthofenChina i. 436 f., 504, rev. by YuleAcad. xiii. 339; Di Du; T. de LacouperieBOR i. 45 ff., 183 ff., who thinks of Šina, at foot of Hindu Kush, but unlikely; read prob. סְוֵנִים (or סְוָנִים), so CheIntr. Is. 275, and Hpt., cf. already JDMich.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Sinim (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 49:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.12/#tree)

הִנֵּה־אֵ֕לֶּה מֵרָח֖וֹק יָבֹ֑אוּ וְהִֽנֵּה־אֵ֙לֶּה֙ מִצָּפ֣וֹן וּמִיָּ֔ם וְאֵ֖לֶּה מֵאֶ֥רֶץ סִינִֽים׃

*Word for word:* here! these from a.distance they.will.come and here! these from.\[the\] north and from.\[the\] west and these from the.land of.Sinim

*JPS 1917:* Behold, these shall come from far; and, lo, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Sinim.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5515.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5515/): 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).