Lexical Definition

‎סִינִים‎ Çîynîym (see-neem') Syene ^N:N--LG
plural of an otherwise unknown name

Sinim.

• § Sinim = "thorns"
• Sinim, a distant Oriental region

1) a people living at the extremity of the known world; may be identified with the inhabitants of southern China

Extended Information

spelling of: סְוֵנֵה

• Sinim = "thorns"
• Another spelling of se.ve.neh (‎ס‎ְ‎ו‎ֵ‎נ‎ֵ‎ה‎ "Syene" סְוֵנֵה)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎סְוֵנִים‎ adjective, of a people plural Syenites, so (or ‎סְוָנִים‎) read probably for ‎סִינִים‎ (q. v.) Isa 49:12.

‎סִינִים‎ adjective, of a people plural = substantive; ‎׳‎‎אֶרֶץ ס‎ Isa 49:12, identification with Chinese by Thes^948-950 De Che^Comm. and others; but see see Richthofen^{China i. 436 f., 504}, reviewed by Yule^{Acad. xiii. 339}; Di Du; T. de Lacouperie^{BOR i. 45 ff., 183 ff.}, who thinks of Šina, at foot of Hindu Kush, but unlikely; read probably ‎סְוֵנִים‎ (or ‎סְוָנִים‎), so Che^{Intr. Is. 275}, and Hpt., compare already JDMich. ‎סִיס‎ Jer 8:7 Qr see I. ‎סוּס‎.

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