G4614

Σινᾶ

Sina

Proper locative noun · Of Hebrew origin סיני (H5514)

Of Hebrew origin (H5514); Sina (i.e. Sinai), a mountain in Arabia:—Sina.

Outline

Sinai = "thorny"

a mountain or rather a mountainous region in the peninsula of Arabia Petraea, made famous by the giving of the Mosaic law

Usages

Acts 7:30

And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.

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Acts 7:38

This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

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Galatians 4:24

Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

Breakdown

Which things are an allegory Apostle Paul is saying that the following is an allegory. Agar Hagar was cast out (Genesis 21:9-10).

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Galatians 4:25

For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

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