cini
סיני
'cini' is typically translated as “Mount Sinai”. Most people think that “Mount Sinai” refers to a specific mountain in the Sinai desert. However, the etymology and context both appear to indicate that the term her cini refers instead to a wide mountainous area in the region of cin.
The site currently widely recognized by pilgrims as “Mount Sinai” is also known as “Jebel Musa” in eastern Egypt, does not particularly match any of the textual descriptions, nor is there archeological or biblical evidence to support the particular hill as special in any way.
“although we are told that the sacred mountain was somewhere in the Sinai Wilderness— an area which includes eastern Egypt, together with southern Israel and Jordan— the Bible does not directly reveal its whereabouts. There are hundreds of mountains in the Sinai Wilderness, an area of over fifty thousand square miles.”1)
Many scholars argue about whether Mount Sinai is the same mountain as Mount Horeb. The fact is that there is no such place as “Mount Horeb”. These supposed references actually refer to 'her hereb', “the mountain ruins”, which potentially refers to any location in the hills where ancient ruins exist, of which there were apparently many such sites.