Sinites

The Sinites were the descendants of Sini ("Name means::thorn" or "Name means::clay"), the eighth son of Canaan, according to.

Descendants
The name of this people is still to be found today in the cities of Nahr as-Sinn and Sinn Addarb, which are both in close proximity to Arqa. The Phoenicians knew the Sinites as the Usnu; the Assyrians called them the Usana and Siannu; and the Ugaritic tablets refer to them as the sn. Y-Chromosomal Haplogroup B.