Zin

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A low palm-tree, the south-eastern corner of the desert et-Tih, the wilderness of Paran, between the Gulf of Akabah and the head of the Wady Guraiyeh (Num_13:21). To be distinguished from the wilderness of Sin.

zin (צן, cin; Σίν, Sín):

(1) A town in the extreme South of Judah, on the line separating that province from Edom, named between the ascent of Akrabbim and Kadesh-barnea (Num_34:4; Jos_15:3). It must have lain somewhere between Wâdy el-Fiḳra (the ascent of Akrabbim?) and ‛Ain Ḳadīs (Kadesh-barnea); but the site has not been recovered.

(2) The Wilderness of Zin is the tract deriving its name from the town (Num_34:3). It is identified with the wilderness of Kadesh in Num_33:36; while in other places Kadesh is said to be in the wilderness of Zin (Num_20:1; Num_27:14; Deu_32:51). We may take it that the two names refer to the same region. The spies, who set out from Kadesh-barnea, explored the land from the wilderness of Zin northward (Num_13:21; compare Num_32:8). It bordered with Judah “at the uttermost part of the south” (Jos_15:1). In this wilderness Moses committed the offense which cost him his hope of entering the promised land (Num_27:14; Deu_32:51). It is identical with the uplands lying to the North and Northwest of the wilderness of Paran, now occupied by the ‛Azazimeh Arabs.