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Zarahemla Research Foundation Staff
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Book, Section
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148
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Bountiful; Hebrew language; names from the Book of Mormon
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According to Alma 6:8 (RLDS versification), the Nephites usually named places after the founder. However, bountiful in Hebrew is tob and is a name given to a region in Palestine that was very fertile, and the word for desolation is samem, which means a land wasted by war or natural disaster. Perhaps these names are given because the places were not cities but large areas.