Item Detail
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28966
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English
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The Names Lehi and Sariah-Language and Meaning
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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2000
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9
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Provo, UT
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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32-34, 77
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"Unlike the Old and New Testaments, where a variety of Hebrew and Greek texts exist to aid us, for the Book of Mormon we have only the King James English translation produced by Joseph Smith. The languages of the Book of Mormon were hardly the same throughout the original composition. Chadwick continues the onomastic discussion of the names Lehi and Sariah by suggesting that the Book of Mormon name Lehi matches the spelling in the King James Bible in the place-name Ramath-lehi; therefore the two must necessarily represent the same Hebrew. He agrees with one of Hoskisson's meanings for Lehi's name-'jaw'-and indicates this may be a nickname rather than a proper name. Sariah is attested as a female name in a Near East document. Although not found as a female name in the Bible, it is well documented as a male name in ancient Israel. In this light, the name means 'Jehovah is Prince,' meaning Jehovah is the son of a king."
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https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1235&context=jbms
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Knowing Why: 137 Evidences that the Book of Mormon is True
Lehi and Sariah
Names of People: Book of Mormon
“Our Great God Has in Goodness Sent These”: Notes on the Goodness of God, the Didactic Good of Nephi’s Small Plates, and Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s Renaming
Perspectives on Latter-day Saints Names and Naming: Names, Identity, and Belief