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|'''[[:Category:Lehite PN|Lehite PN]]'''
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| Wife of [[LEHI|L<small>EHI</small>]] No. 1, ca. 600 BC ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/1?lang=eng 1 Nephi 1:Preface]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/2.5?lang=eng#4 2:5]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/5.1,%206?lang=eng#primary 5:1, 6]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/8.14?lang=eng#13 8:14])
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'''Etymology'''

'''S<small>ARIAH</small>''' appears to be the feminine form of the biblical name Seraiah, attested nineteen times in reference to nine individuals.<ref>For an excellent initial treatment of Book of Mormon '''S<small>ARIAH</small>''' see [[John A. Tvedtnes]], [[John Gee]] and [[Matthew Roper]], “Book of Mormon Names Attested in Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions,” ''Journal of Book of Mormon Studies'' 9/1 (2000): 43. For examples of ''Seraiah'' spelled שריה, see [http://lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-kgs/25.18?lang=eng#17 2 Kings 25:18]; [http://lds.org/scriptures/ot/jer/32.12?lang=eng#11 Jeremiah 32:12]; [http://lds.org/scriptures/ot/jer/40.8?lang=eng#7 40:8]; and [http://lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-chr/4.13?lang=eng#12 1 Chronicles 4:13]; and for the spelling שריהו see [http://lds.org/scriptures/ot/jer/36.26?lang=eng#25 Jeremiah 36:26]. There are examples in [[HEBREW|H<small>EBREW</small>]] of the same name being used for a man or a woman, though it is not the norm.  For example, Abijah is an Israelite man’s name (e.g., Abiah in [http://lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-chr/6.28?lang=eng#27 1 Chronicles 6:28] and [http://lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-chr/7.8?lang=eng#7 7:8]) as well as a woman’s name—the name of Hezekiah’s mother (e.g., [http://lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-chr/29.1?lang=eng#primary 2 Chronicles 29:1]). In the Anglo-American tradition of naming are the interchangeable man’s and woman’s names Aubrey, Dana, Jordan, Kim, Leslie, Morgan, Robin, Shirley, Stac(e)y, and Tracy.</ref>  '''S<small>ARIAH</small>''' is probably composed, like the biblical Seraiah, of the common Semitic vocable ''śr'', meaning “commander, official, prince, advisor,” etc., in West Semitic; and the specifically [[HEBREW|H<small>EBREW</small>]] theophoric element ''yāh'', a shortened form of the tetragrammaton ''yhwh'' (Jehovah). The name could mean, “commander of Jehovah,” or “prince of Jehovah," or even "the prince is Jehovah.”

As a [[HEBREW|H<small>EBREW</small>]] feminine personal name '''S<small>ARIAH</small>''' is attested in the Aramaic papyri found in Elephantine, [[EGYPT|E<small>GYPT</small>]], D9.14.5 and C3.15.4, where it is written ''śryh brt [...] hrmn'' and ''śry[h br]t hwš‘ br hrmn'' respectively.<ref>Bezalel Porten and Jerome A. Lund , ''Aramaic Documents from Egypt: A Key-Word-in-Context Concordance'' (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2002), 416, label שריה as a [[HEBREW|H<small>EBREW</small>]] feminine name, Serayah.</ref>  Although the language of the documents is Aramaic, the names are in fact [[HEBREW|H<small>EBREW</small>]]. Additionally, the name ''śryhw'' occurs on biblical period seals.<ref>See Nahman Avigad and Benjamin Sass, ''Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals'' (Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sociences and Humanities, 1997), 122, 134, 163,189, and 237.</ref> 
([[Paul Y. Hoskisson|PYH]] and [[Stephen D. Ricks|SDR]])

Cf. Biblical Sarai and [[SARAH|S<small>ARAH</small>]] (also named in the Book of Mormon)

'''Variants'''

'''[[Deseret Alphabet]]:''' 𐐝𐐁𐐡𐐌𐐂 (seɪraɪɑː)

'''Notes'''
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'''Bibliography'''
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*[[Jeffrey R. Chadwick]] "The Names Lehi and Sariah—Language and Meaning." [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=9&num=1&id=389 ''Journal of Book of Mormon Studies'' 9, no. 1 (2000): 32-34.]
*[[Jeffrey R. Chadwick]] "Sariah in the Elephantine Papyri." [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=2&num=2&id=40 ''Journal of Book of Mormon Studies'' 2, no. 2 (1993): 196-200.]
*[[Daniel H. Ludlow]]. ''A Companion to your Study of the Book of Mormon.'' Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1969.
*[[Camille Fronk Olsen]] "Desert Epiphany: Sariah and the Women in 1 Nephi." [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=9&num=2&id=222 ''Journal of Book of 	Mormon Studies'' 9, no. 2 (2000): 4-15.]
*[[Henry A. Smith]] “Interesting Clipping.” Church News 35 (September 11, 1965): 6; reprint from "Chiapas Find of Relevance to Document." El Paso Times, July 5, 1965.
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