Sinai [sahy-nahy, sahy-nee-ahy] EXAMPLES| noun Also called Sinai Peninsula. a peninsula in NE Egypt, at the N end of the Red Sea between the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba. 230 miles (370 km) long. Mount, the mountain, in S Sinai, of uncertain identity, on which Moses received the law. Ex. Liberaldictionary.com
Related formsSi·na·it·ic [sahy-nee-it-ik] /ˌsaɪ niˈɪt ɪk/, Si·na·ic [si-ney-ik] /sɪˈneɪ ɪk/, adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for sinaitic Historical Examples of sinaitic
He even crossed the Jordan and went through the Sinaitic desert to Egypt.
Claude Reignier Conder
For forty years we find him on the Sinaitic peninsula, herding sheep.
A. F. Schauffler
The mines of the Sinaitic Peninsula were coveted by both countries.
Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations
Archibald Sayce
We have already seen that the Sinaitic Desert is almost waterless.
With the British Army in The Holy Land
Henry Osmond Lock
In 1868 a party of engineering experts left England to make a scientific survey of the Sinaitic Peninsula.
New Witnesses for God (Volume 2 of 3)
B. H. Roberts
British Dictionary definitions for sinaitic Sinaitic Sinaic (sɪˈneɪɪk) adjective of or relating to the Sinai Peninsula of or relating to Mount Sinai Sinai noun a mountainous peninsula of NE Egypt at the N end of the Red Sea, between the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba: occupied by Israel in 1967; fully restored by 1982 Mount Sinai the mountain where Moses received the Law from God (Exodus 19–20): often identified as Jebel Musa, sometimes as Jebel Serbal, both on the S Sinai Peninsula Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for sinaitic Sinai
the mountain is perhaps named for Sin, a moon goddess worshipped by Sumerians, Akkadians, and ancient Arabs. As an adjectival form, Sinaic (1769), Sinaitic (1786).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper sinaitic in Culture Sinai [(seye-neye)]
Peninsula in northeastern Egypt (see also Egypt), bordered by the Gulf of Aqaba, an arm of the Red Sea, to the east, and the Gulf of Suez, another arm of the Red Sea, to the west.
Note Sinai has been the scene of fighting during the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israel conquered and occupied Sinai in the Six-Day War but returned the region to Egypt in 1982.Note In the Bible (see also Bible), Moses received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.