SINAI

Arabic Saināʾ ( سيناء‎ ), Heb. ‏סִינַי‎ Sinai . In the Qurʾān T̤ūru Saināʾ ( طور سيناء‎ ), also T̤ūru Sīnīn ( طور سينين‎ ), “Mount Sinai”; and at̤-T̤ūr ( الطور‎ ), “the Mount”; Chaldee ‏טוּר‎ T̤ūr . In Muslim commentaries, Jabalu Mūsā ( جبل موسى‎ ), “the Mount of Moses.” It is referred to in the Qurʾān as the mountain on which God gave the tables of the Law ( Sūrah vii. 139 ), and as the place where God a embled the prophets and took a compact from them ( Sūrah iii. 75 ). In Sūrah xcv. 2 , Muḥammad makes the Almighty swear “by Mount Sinai”; and in Sūrah xxiii. 20 , we are told that, “a tree growing out of Mount Sinai produces oil and a condiment for those who eat.” Al-Baiẓāwī (Fleischer’s ed., vol. i. p. 343), and the author of the Majmaʿu ʾl-Biḥār (p. 57), both say that Moses received the tables of the Law on the mountain called Jabalu Zubair ( جبل زبير‎ ).