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|Officer, 1st century BC (Alma 57:28; 58:23) | |Officer, 1st century BC ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/57/28#28 Alma 57:28]; [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/58/23#23 58:23]) | ||
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|City, ca. 67 BC (Alma 51:26; Helaman 5:15) | |City, ca. 67 BC ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/51/26#26 Alma 51:26]; [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/hel/5/15#15 Helaman 5:15]) | ||
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Cf. the KJV GN Gidom = infinitive construct Hebrew gid‘ōm “they had been cut down,” with 3rd masculine plural suffix (Judges 20:45; JH),<ref>G. Herion, “Gidom,” in Freedman, ed., ABD, II:1015.</ref> and gidu, a village near Ebla (JAT).<ref>Pettinato, Archives.</ref> This may simply be the mimated form of Hebrew gid‘ôn “Iconoclast, Destroyer, Slasher, Hacker, Hewer” (Judges 6: | |||
The etymology remains obscure, though Hebrew gīd, “sinew,” is not impossible (see the “sinew” incident in Genesis 32) (JH). Nibley suggests a corruption of the Meroitic (i.e., | Cf. the KJV GN Gidom = infinitive construct Hebrew gid‘ōm “they had been cut down,” with 3rd masculine plural suffix ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/judg/20/45#45 Judges 20:45]; JH),<ref>G. Herion, “Gidom,” in Freedman, ed., ABD, II:1015.</ref> and gidu, a village near Ebla (JAT).<ref>Pettinato, Archives.</ref> This may simply be the mimated form of Hebrew gid‘ôn “Iconoclast, Destroyer, Slasher, Hacker, Hewer” ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/judg/6/11-40#11 Judges 6:11][http://scriptures.lds.org/en/judg –] [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/judg/8/1-35#1 8:35]), which is the alternate name of Jeruba‘al.<ref>Albright, YGC, 199 n. 101; R. Boling, “Gideon,” in Freedman, ed., ABD, II:1013-1015.</ref> | ||
The etymology remains obscure, though Hebrew gīd, “sinew,” is not impossible (see the “sinew” incident in [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/gen/32 Genesis 32]) (JH). Nibley suggests a corruption of the Meroitic (i.e., | |||
post-LEHI, *Nubian/EGYPTIAN) names KIB and Keb.<ref>Nibley, Since Cumorah 194.</ref> If this name is related to the Book of Mormon names GIDDIANHI and GIDDONAH or GIDGIDONNAH, then the root would | post-LEHI, *Nubian/EGYPTIAN) names KIB and Keb.<ref>Nibley, Since Cumorah 194.</ref> If this name is related to the Book of Mormon names GIDDIANHI and GIDDONAH or GIDGIDONNAH, then the root would | ||
be *gdd or gdgd, respectively. | be *gdd or gdgd, respectively. | ||
Revision as of 12:57, 19 March 2011
| Lehite PN | 1. | Officer, 1st century BC (Alma 57:28; 58:23) |
| Lehite GN | 2. | City, ca. 67 BC (Alma 51:26; Helaman 5:15) |
Cf. the KJV GN Gidom = infinitive construct Hebrew gid‘ōm “they had been cut down,” with 3rd masculine plural suffix (Judges 20:45; JH),[1] and gidu, a village near Ebla (JAT).[2] This may simply be the mimated form of Hebrew gid‘ôn “Iconoclast, Destroyer, Slasher, Hacker, Hewer” (Judges 6:11– 8:35), which is the alternate name of Jeruba‘al.[3] The etymology remains obscure, though Hebrew gīd, “sinew,” is not impossible (see the “sinew” incident in Genesis 32) (JH). Nibley suggests a corruption of the Meroitic (i.e., post-LEHI, *Nubian/EGYPTIAN) names KIB and Keb.[4] If this name is related to the Book of Mormon names GIDDIANHI and GIDDONAH or GIDGIDONNAH, then the root would be *gdd or gdgd, respectively.
It would be a variant of gād, “luck, etc.” (See GAD above), though this seems less likely because the vowel quality of gād as a noun is phonemic. Even less likely is a derivation from the Hebrew PN GIDEON, though GID may be a hypocoristicon thereof (RFS). Cf. The SAMARIA ostraca seal PN gdyhw (ABM, 237), which as a hypocoristicon would be gd.
See GAD, AMGID, GIDDIANHI, GIDDONAH, GIDGIDDONAH, GIDGIDDONI.
