Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <Yigal-Levin AT utc.edu>]

Hi Walter,

"Zin" (Sade-Nun), in what is now called the central Negev and central-north
Sinai, appears in the locative "Zinah" twice (Nu. 34:4 and Josh. 15:3),
both in the (almost identical) desciptions of the southern boundary of The
Land, meaning that the border-line went "to Zin". I don't know of the from
"hazinah".
"Sin" (Samekh-Yod-Nun), is on the easternmost Nile Delta (now probably east
of the Suez Cannal and in fact in Ez. 30:15-16 rendered "Pelusium" by the
Vulgate - which the KJV ignored and the NRSV retained) is never spelled
that way, but presumably would have been had the occasion arisen.

Yigal

At 01:14 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, Walter R. Mattfeld wrote:
>A question on biblical Hebrew, is the wilderness of Sin (Exodus 16:1) ever
>rendered hasin ? I seem to recall the wilderness of Zin at Kadesh-barnea
>being rendered hasina in Hebrew ?
>
>Regards, Walter
>Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld, M.A. Ed.
>mattfeld12 AT charter.net
>
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