סִינַי proper name, of a mountain Sinai; — name of mountain of law-giving in J and especially P (חֹרֵב in E and especially D): [Judg 5:5]; [Ps 68:9]; [Deut 33:2] (poem), also [Exod 16:1] (P); usually הַרסִֿינַי (סִֿינָ֑י [Lev 7:38] +), rarely J, [Exod 19:20]; [Exod 19:23] and perhaps [Exod 34:2]; [Exod 34:4], elsewhere mostly P, [Exod 24:16]; [Exod 31:18]; [Exod 34:29]; [Exod 34:32]; [Lev 7:38]; [Lev 25:1]; [Lev 27:34] and [Lev 26:46] (H), [Num 3:1]; [Num 28:6], also [Neh 9:13] מִרְבַּר סִינַי (סִינָ֑י [Num 1:19] +), [Exod 19:1]; [Exod 19:2]; [Lev 7:38]; [Num 1:1]; [Num 1:19]; [Num 3:4]; [Num 3:14]; [Num 9:1]; [Num 9:5]; [Num 10:12]; [Num 26:64]; [Num 33:15]; [Num 33:16] (all P); — in view of these facts, and of E's use of חֹרֵב (q. v.), it is probably that [Exod 19:11]; [Exod 19:18] (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 RobBR i. 90 ff., especially 119-122 compare StanleySinai and Pal. 42 f. and elsewhere, specifically its northern spur, Ras ‚afƒâfeh; but LepsiusBriefe 345 ff., 416 ff. EbGS especially 392 ff. and others advocate Serbal, northwest from Jebel Musa (on tradition, cf Ebib. 413 ff.); see discussion Di[Exod 19:1]. Against both is the working of Egyptian mines in the peninsula as late as the 19th dynasty (see EbGS 135, 148 ff., 159, etc.), involving presence of soldiers there. This, and connection with Midian (compare also [Judg 5:5]), have led to search for Sinai further northeast, near head of Gulf of Akaba, or even in Seir, so SayMonuments 263 ff., compare GFM[Judg 5:5]; [Judg 6:1] and Yakut, cited by Id179 n. §, also see GallAltisr. Kultst. 12; on sanctity of the mountain see further RSSem i. 110 f., 2nd ed. 177 f. SmRel. Geschichte. 30.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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