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▪ Jeffery1938: »Twice it is expressly coupled with sīnāʔ, and except in lii, 1, where it might mean ‘mountain’ in general, it is used only in connection with the experiences of the Israelites at Sinai.¹ / It was early recognized by the philologers as a foreign word. al-Ǧawālīqī, Muʕarrab, 100; Ibn Qutayba, Adab al-Kātib, 527; al-Suyūṭī, Muzhir, i, 130; and Bayḍ. on lii, 1, give it as a Syr word, though others, as we learn from al-Suyūṭī, Itq, 322, thought that it was a Nabataean word. / Hbr ṣûr = [Grk] pétra, from meaning a ‘single rock, boulder’, comes to have the sense of ‘cliff’, and Aram ṭwrʔ is a ‘mountain’. So in the Targums ṭwrʔ d-syny is ‘Mt. Sinai’,² but the ṭūr sīnāʔ of the Qurʔān is obviously the Syr ṭūr sīnāy which occurs beside ṭūrā d-sīnāy.³ «

1. See Kunstlinger, ‘“Ṭūr und Ǧabal im Ḳurān”, in Rocznik Orjentalistyczny, v (1927), pp. 58-67. 2. Vide Onkelos on Ex. xix, 18. 3. Fraenkel, Vocab, 21; Mingana, Syr Influence, 88; and see Horovitz, JPN, 170; KU, 123 ff.; Guidi, Della Sede, 571.

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