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SINITE, Sinæus. Gen. x. 17. By this Name is denoted the eighth Son of Canaan. The Sinites dwelt near Arce, in Mount Libanus.1 Strabo mentions the Fortress in Sinna in the Mountains. By Sinæi the Arabick means the Inhabitants of Tripolis in Phenicia.2
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