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Lehite PN	1.	Chief judge, 1st c. BC (Alma 4:17, 18, 20; 8:12; 50:37, 39)
Lehite GN	2.	City and land, perhaps named from No. 1, 1st c. BC (Alma 50:14; 51:24, 25, 26; 56:25; 59:5, 7, 8, 9, 11; 62:14, 18 (x3), 26, 30 (x2))
	3.	Plains, ca. 61 BC (Alma 62:18)

Etymology

Perhaps NEPHI with affixed theophoric YHH (= YAHU) in Elephantine Documents 1:2, and 13:14.^[1]

Cf. Book of Mormon NEPHI, LEHINEPHI, AHAH

Variants

Nephiah

Deseret Alphabet: 𐐤𐐀𐐙𐐌𐐐𐐂

Notes

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 |Plains, ca. 61 BC ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/62.18?lang=eng#17 Alma 62:18])
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-'''This entry is not finished'''
 '''Etymology'''
-This is one of several suffixed names in the Book of Mormon (see also e.g., [[CUMENI|C<small>UMENI</small>]]/[[CUMENIHAH|C<small>UMENIHAH</small>]], [[MATHONI|M<small>ATHONI</small>]]/[[MATHONIHAH|M<small>ATHONIHAH</small>]], [[MORONI|M<small>ORONI</small>]]/[[MORONIHAH|M<small>ORONIHAH</small>]]). For [[NEPHI|N<small>EPHI</small>]], see above. For the
+Perhaps [[NEPHI|N<small>EPHI</small>]] with affixed theophoric YHH (= YAHU) in Elephantine Documents 1:2, and 13:14.<ref>A. Cowley, ''Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth Century B.C.'' (1923).</ref>
-suffix ''-hah'' see the introduction.
-[[George Reynolds|Reynolds]], Story of the Book of Mormon, p. 299, based on reading ''-ihah'' as the theophoric element and ''neph'' as coming from some root meaning “consolation,” translates
+See [[AMMONIHAH|A<small>MMONIHAH</small>]], [[CUMENIHAH|C<small>UMENIHAH</small>]], [[MATHONIHAH|M<small>ATHONIHAH</small>]], [[MORONIHAH|M<small>ORONIHAH</small>]], [[ONIHAH|O<small>NIHAH</small>]], [[ORIHAH|O<small>RIHAH</small>]].
-“Jehovah’s consolation.”
 Cf. Book of Mormon [[NEPHI|N<small>EPHI</small>]], [[LEHINEPHI|L<small>EHINEPHI</small>]], [[AHAH|A<small>HAH</small>]]