STRONGS NUMBER H5514

H5514. Sinay

סִינַי‎ proper name, of a mountain Sinai; — name of mountain of law-giving in J and especially P (חֹרֵב‎ in E and especially D): Judges 5:5; Psalm 68:9; Deuteronomy 33:2 (poem), also Exodus 16:1 (P); usually הַרסִֿינַי‎ (סִֿינָ֑י‎ Leviticus 7:38 +), rarely J, Exodus 19:20, 23 and perhaps 34:2, 4, elsewhere mostly P, 24:16; 31:18; 34:29, 32; Leviticus 7:38; 25:1; 27:34; and 26:46 (H), Numbers 3:1; 28:6, also Nehemiah 9:13; סִינַי מִרְבַּר‎ (סִינָ֑י‎ Numbers 1:19 +), Exodus 19:1-2, Leviticus 7:38; Numbers 1:1, 19; 3:4, 14; 9:1, 5; 10:12; 26:64; 33:15-16, (all P); — in view of these facts, and of E's use of חֹרֵב‎ (q. v.), it is probably that Exodus 19:11, 18 (in E passages) are from R. — ᵐ5‎ Σ(ε)ινα. Identification dubious; local tradition names Jebel Musa, mountain at southern end of peninsular between the two arms of Red Sea, so Rob^{BR i. 90 ff., especially 119-122} compare Stanley^{Sinai and Pal. 42 f. and elsewhere}, specifically its northern spur, Ras ‚afƒâfeh; but Lepsius^{Briefe 345 ff., 416 ff.} Eb^{GS especially 392 ff.} and others advocate Serbal, northwest from Jebel Musa (on tradition, cf Eb^{ib. 413 ff.}); see discussion Di^19:1. Against both is the working of Egyptian mines in the peninsula as late as the 19th dynasty (see Eb^{GS 135, 148 ff., 159, etc.}), involving presence of soldiers there. This, and connection with Midian (compare also Judges 5:5), have led to search for Sinai further northeast, near head of Gulf of Akaba, or even in Seir, so Say^{Monuments 263 ff.}, compare GFM^{5:5; 6:1} and Yakut, cited by Id^{179n. §}, also see Gall^{Altisr. Kultst. 12}; on sanctity of the mountain see further RS^{Sem i. 110 f., 2nd ed. 177 f.} Sm^{Rel. Geschichte. 30}.