Sinai
['saɪnaɪ]
Definition
(noun.) a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea.
(noun.) a desert on the Sinai Peninsula in northeastern Egypt.
(noun.) a mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high); it is believed to be the peak on which Moses received the Ten Commandments.
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Examples
- It was the law of my fathers, said Rebecca; it was delivered in thunders and in storms upon the mountain of Sinai, in cloud and in fire. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The Pharaohs of the 1st Dynasty were already working the copper and turquoise mines in the peninsula of Sinai. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Meanwhile, Turkish forces, very ill equipped, were making threatening gestures at Egypt across the desert of Sinai. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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