Sinai Synonyms

sīnī
A peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Sinai Desert
  2. sinai peninsula
A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high); it is believed to be the peak on which Moses received the Ten Commandments
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Mount Sinai

Sinai Sentence Examples

  • The Jews would have thought that He had returned to Sinai, the holy mountain; and that they were deprived of the temporal blessings which were the gifts of a God who literally dwelt in the midst of his people."

  • Sinai, and finally acquired by the tsar in 1869.

  • In the south of the Sinaitic peninsula, remains have been found of an elaborate half-Egyptian, half-Semitic cultus (Petrie, Researches in Sinai, xiii.), and not only does Edom possess some reputation for " wisdom," but, where this district is concerned, the old Arabian religion (whose historical connexion with Palestine is still imperfectly known) claims some attention.

  • Dreams of political freedom gave place to hopes of religious independence, and " Israel " became a church, the foundation of which it sought in the desert of Sinai a thousand years before.

  • Professor Marr has lately published an Arabic text from a MS. in Sinai which seems to contain an older tradition.

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