Sinaic

Si`na´ic

Of or pertaining to Mount Sinai; given or made at Mount Sinai; as, the Sinaitic law.

Sinaitic manuscript
a fourth century Greek manuscript of the part Bible, discovered at Mount Sinai (the greater part of it in 1859) by Tisschendorf, a German Biblical critic; - called also Codex Sinaiticus.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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