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Sinai in British English
(ˈsaɪnaɪ, ˈsaɪnɪˌaɪ)
noun
1.
a mountainous peninsula of NE Egypt at the N end of the Red Sea, between the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba: occupied by Israel in 1967; fully restored by 1982
2. Mount Sinai
Sinai in American English
(ˈsaɪˌnaɪ; occas .; ˈsaɪneɪˌaɪ; saɪniˌaɪ)
Mountthe mountain (probably in the S Sinai Peninsula but not identified) where Moses received the law from God: Ex. 19
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