Lexical Definition

‎סִין‎ Çîyn (seen) Pelusium ^N:N--L
of uncertain derivation

Sin.

• § Sin = "thorn" or "clay"
• Sin the name of an Egyptian town and (probably) desert adjoining

1) a town in eastern Egypt
2) the tract of wilderness between Elim and Sinai

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎סִין‎ proper name, of a location Sin, i.e. Pelusium, east frontier city of Egypt (Egyptian 'Imt = clay, of which ‎סין‎ is translated (compare Aramaic ‎סְיָן‎ clay), according to Steind^{BAS i. 599}, who compare IIηλούσιον(πηλός = dirt, mud), compare Brugsch^{Dict. Géogr. 1081 ff.}); — Ezek 30:15 (ᵐ5 Σαιν accusative), + vEzek 30:16, but here Co Toy read plausibly ‎סון‎, i.e. ‎סְוָן‎ = Syene (see [‎סְוָן‎], ‎סְוֵנֵה‎), ᵐ5 συηνη. — On Pelusium see Bd^{Egypt.4 (1898), 169}.

II. ‎סִין‎ proper name, of a location wilderness between Elim and Sinai, ‎מִדְבַּרסִֿין‎, according to P, Exod 16:1; Exod 17:1; Num 33:11; Num 3:12 ᵐ5 Σειν, A ᵐ5^L Σιν; compare Eb^{GS 2. 155 ff.} and especially Di^{Exod 16:1}.

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