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SINIM.—The ‘land of Sinim’ (Isa_49:12) must, from the context, have been in the extreme south or east of the known world. In the south, Sin (Pelusium, Eze_30:15 f.) and Syene (Eze_29:10; Eze_30:6) have been suggested. The latter is favoured by recent discoveries of papyri (cf. Seveneh). The LXX [Note: Septuagint.] favours the view that a country in the east was intended, and some modern commentators have identified Sinim with China, the land of the Sinæ.