The Wilderness of Sin or Desert of Sin (Hebrew: מִדְבַּר סִין‎) is a geographic area mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as lying between Elim and Mount Sinai.[1][2] Sin does not refer to sinfulness, but is an untranslated word that would translate as the moon; biblical scholars suspect that the name Sin here refers to the semitic moon-deity Sin,[3][4][5] who was worshipped widely around the entire periphery of pre-Islamic Arabia, the Levant, and Mesopotamia.