The modern Arabic is an adoption of the biblical name, the 19th-century Arabic designation of Sinai was "Jebel el-Tūr", which the name of the mountain is derived from a small town called El-Tor (formerly called "Tur Sinai"), which this name comes from the Arabic term for the mountain where the prophet Moses received the Tablets of the Law from God, thus this mountain is designated as ""Jabal Aṭ-Ṭūr" (Arabic: جبل الطّور)", and the town is also the capital of the South Sinai Governorate of Egypt. As another Arabic word for "mass of very high land going up to a peak - mountain" is ""Ṭūr"."