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• Sinim

語源

From Ecclesiastical Latin Sineum, from Ancient Greek Ασενναῖον (Asennaîon), from Biblical Hebrew סִינִי (sînî).

名詞

Sinite (plural Sinites)

1. An inhabitant of the city of Šianu (identified with modern Siano on the coast of Syria).
2. (biblical) A "son" of Canaan.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 10:15-18:
     :

     And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

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