Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk" <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org>]

I guess there may also have been confusion between the wilderness of Zin
(tsade-hireq-nun), mentioned mostly in Numbers, and the wilderness of Sin
(samekh-hireq-yod-nun) of Exodus 16:1, 17:1, also both are listed in Numbers
33. The names are likely to be confused, especially in transliterations into
many languages which don't distinguish tsade and samekh. Also in both places
there seems to have been a place called Meribah where the Israelites
quarrelled and Moses brought water from a rock (Exo 17:6,7; Num 20:11,13).
But the geographical areas seem to have been quite separate.

Peter Kirk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter Mattfeld [mailto:mattfeld AT mail.pjsnet.com]
> Sent: 04 November 2001 10:50
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: Zin, wilderness of
>
>
> Can someone advise me if the "wilderness of Zin" near
> Kadesh-Barnea was ever
> rendered ha-sina or h-sina,  something to that effect ?
>
> I note some observations on Zin-
>
> "Num 43:4; and Josh 15:3, where MT sina, "to Zin," is rendered "Senna" in
> both LXX and Latin Vulgate...In both Num 34:4 and Josh 15:3 the name "Zin"
> occurs with the locative h- in a context that suggests a
> distinction between
> Zin and the Wilderness of Zin. Some have interpreted these passages as
> evidence that there was a specific place, located between Kadesh and the
> ascent of Akrabbim named Zin from which the wilderness derived its name."
> (Vol.6, p. 1096, David R. Seely, "Zin, Wilderness of," Anchor Bible
> Dictionary. 1992)
>
> All the best, Walter
>
> Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld
> Walldorf by Heidelberg
> Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany
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