sinai desert

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• Sinai Desert — desert located between the Red Sea and the Suez Canal …   English contemporary dictionary

• 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

• Sinai Peninsula — broad peninsula in NE Egypt, between the Gulf of Suez & the Gulf of Aqaba * * * Peninsula, northeastern Egypt. Located between the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba at the northern end of the Red Sea, it covers some 23,500 sq mi (61,000 sq km). Its… …   Universalium

• Sinai — noun 1. a mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high); it is believed to be the peak on which Moses received the Ten Commandments • Syn: ↑Mount Sinai • Instance Hypernyms: ↑mountain peak • Part Holonyms: ↑Sinai Peninsula 2. a… …   Useful english dictionary

• Sinai Peninsula — The Sinai Peninsula or Sinai (Coptic: Coptic|ⲥⲓⲛⲁ sina ; Egyptian Arabic: sina سينا; Arabic, sina a سيناء; Sinin in most Semitic languages, he. סיני Sinai ) is a triangular peninsula in Egypt. It lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the north… …   Wikipedia

• Sinai and Palestine Campaign — The Sinai and Palestine Campaign during the Middle Eastern Theatre of World War I was a series of battles which took place on the Sinai Peninsula, Palestine, and Syria between January 28, 1915 and October 28, 1918. British, Australian, and New… …   Wikipedia

• Desert Battle Dress Uniform — These pants have the chocolate chip camouflage pattern. Desert Battle Dress Uniform[1] (abbreviated DBDU, often called Chocolate Chip Camouflage, Cookie Dough Camouflage, or the Six Color Desert Pattern) was the camouflage used by the United… …   Wikipedia

• 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