sinim

name

1. place mentioned in the Bible

   “And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted. Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.”

   “And then, O house of Israel, behold, these shall come from far; and lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.”

   “Perlmann and several others based their contention on the prophesy in Isaiah 49:12 that the Jews would be returning from “Sinim.” Since “Sinim” meant China, they said, and since Isaiah lived in the 8th, or possibly in the 6th, century B.C., both within the period of Zhou (11th to 3rd centuries B.C.), it proved that the Jews were already there.”