Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to Mount Sinai, or to the peninsula in which it is situated, in Arabia, between the two arms of the Red Sea: as, Sinaitic inscriptions; the Sinaitic tables.

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  • adjective Sinaic

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Examples

  • Another manuscript Bible, scarcely less venerable and no less precious than the Vatican Bible, is the one known as the Sinaitic manuscript This was discovered by Constantine Tischendorf, a German scholar, in an ancient convent at the base of Mount Sinai.

    Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People Washington Gladden 1877

  • The great Lawgiver probably led his horde of fugitive slaves over the plains of El – Negeb and El – Tih, north of the so-called Sinaitic mountain-blocks, marching in small divisions like those of a modern Bedawi tribe; and we know from the latest surveys that the land, now alternately a fiery or frozen wilderness, was once well supplied with wood and water.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • The more important and valuable of them which apply to the New Testament are respectively known as the Sinaitic, the Vatican and the Alexandrian, many of whose various translations and readings are incorporated by Tischendorf in his Leipzig edition of the English New Testament.

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

  • The two oldest manuscripts now in existence, that of the Vatican and that known as the Sinaitic manuscript, both omit these words.

    Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People Washington Gladden 1877

  • The great Lawgiver probably led his horde of fugitive slaves over the plains of El-Negeb and El-Tih, north of the so-called Sinaitic mountain-blocks, marching in small divisions like those of a modern Bedawi tribe; and we know from the latest surveys that the land, now alternately a fiery or frozen wilderness, was once well supplied with wood and water.

    The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • "Sinaitic" Peninsula: it is large enough to act mainmast for a ship.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • I have given some specimens of Wasm in The Land of Midian (i. 320) where, as amongst the "Sinaitic" Badawin, various kinds of crosses are preserved long after the death and burial of Christianity.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • I would therefore call the "Sinaitic" Peninsula, Peninsula of Paran in old days and

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Not for a Jew whose self is autonomous, though—who is suspicious of both Sinaitic and rabbinical authority.

    Carried to Orthodoxy 2010

  • I would therefore call the “Sinaitic” Peninsula, Peninsula of

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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