- Sinai Desert
- desert located between the Red Sea and the Suez Canal
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
Sinai Desert
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Sinai Desert — noun a desert on the Sinai Peninsula in northeastern Egypt • Syn: ↑Sinai • Instance Hypernyms: ↑desert • Part Holonyms: ↑Sinai, ↑Sinai Peninsula, ↑Arabian Desert, ↑Great Arabian Desert … Useful english dictionary
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Sinai Peninsula — noun a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea • Syn: ↑Sinai • Instance Hypernyms: ↑peninsula • Part Holonyms: ↑Egypt, ↑Arab Republic of Egypt, ↑United Arab Republic … Useful english dictionary
SINAI — (Heb. סִינָי), peninsula situated between the two northern gulfs of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Eilat on the east and the Gulf of Suez on the west. It forms a triangle, each side of which measures about 200 mi. (320 km.). The peninsula consists of… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Sinai — • The mountain on which the Mosaic Law was given Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Sinai Sinai † … Catholic encyclopedia
Desert (in the Bible) — Desert (in the Bible) † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Desert (in the Bible) The Hebrew words translated in the Douay Version of the Bible by desert or wilderness , and usually rendered by the Vulgate desertum, solitude , or occasionally… … Catholic encyclopedia
