(Mount) Sinai
ΣινᾶStrong’s G4614Sina
Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament
In short
Sina is the Greek word usually translated “sinai”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
Usually translated “sinai”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- sinai 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 2
- Galatians 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Acts 7:38This 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:
- Galatians 4:24Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
- Galatians 4:25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Greek dictionary
Σινᾶ Sina · (Mount) Sinai
Σινά (-ᾶ, Rec.), indecl. (but τὸ Σιναῖον, FlJ, Ant., iii, 5, 1; τὸ Σιναῖον ὄρος, ib. ii, 12, 1), τό (Heb. סִינַי), Sinai (Exo.19:11, al.): Act.7:30, 38, Gal.4:24-25† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.