סִינִי
Sinite
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Sinite’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H5513 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
סיני (Çîynîy) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Sinite.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. Genesis dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. It first appears in Genesis 10:17. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5513 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 1 verse 50%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 50%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Sinite 2×
- American Standard Version: Sinite 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sinites 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sinites 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5513 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5513 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5513 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5513 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Sinite = see Sin " thorn" or " clay"
- a tribe of the Canaanites descended from Canaan inhabiting the northern part of the Lebanon district
Word origin
סִינִי adj.gent. a Canaanite people, in north
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an otherwise unknown name of a man
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
סִינַי
- (b. h.) (הר) ס׳ Mount Sinai. Sabb. 89ᵃ, v. סִימָנַאי. Shebu. 47ᵃ (expl. חזרה השבועה למקומה, ib. VII, 4) חזרה … לס׳ the oath (which ought to have been administered to one of the contestants) goes back to Sinai, i.e. the case is referred to Divine Justice that proclaimed from Sinai, ‘thou shalt not rob’, on which all Israelites are sworn. Ib. 22ᵇ, a. fr. מושבע ועומד מהר ס׳ הוא does he not stand sworn (not to eat it) from Mount Sinai? Macc. 22ᵃ לא קא חלה … מושבע ועומד מהר ס׳ הוא the oath (not to plough on the Holy Day) takes no effect, because he stands sworn &c. Ab. I, 1 משה קבל תורה מס׳ Moses received the Law from Sinai (by revelation); a. v. fr.—הלכה למשה מס׳, v. הֲלָכָה.—Sot. 21ᵃ דרשיה … כי ס׳ R. M. interpreted that verse (Cant. VIII, 7) like a revelation; Arakh. 30ᵇ.—Trnsf. erudite scholar. Hor. 14ᵃ, opp. to עוקר הרים (v. הַר) dialectician; Ber. 64ᵃ; M. Kat. 12ᵃ ס׳ אמר הלכה וכ׳ Sinai (R. Joseph) has said &c. (and you dare to differ?). e.g. Song of Solomon 8:7
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Sinite). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
An inhabitant of Sin, near Arka (Gen. 10:17; 1 Chr. 1:15). (See ARKITE.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
a tribe of Canaanites, (Genesis 10:17; 1 Chronicles 1:15) whose position is to be sought for in the northern part of the Lebanon district.
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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