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|Prophet ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/3_ne/20/24#24 3 Nephi 20:24])
|A Book of Mormon PN of a Lamanite prophet ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/13.2,%205?lang=eng#1 Helaman 13:2, 5]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/14.1?lang=eng#primary 14:1]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/16.1,%202,%205,%206?lang=eng#primary 16:1, 2, 5, 6]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/1.5,%206,%209?lang=eng#4 3 Nephi 1:5, 6, 9]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/8.3?lang=eng#2 8:3]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/20.24?lang=eng#23 20:24]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/23.9,%2010?lang=eng#8 23:9, 10])
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|Prophet, perhaps named from No. 1, who, being an Ephraimite, was also a descendant of [[JOSEPH|J<small>OSEPH</small>]] ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/hel/13/2#2 Helaman 13:2]; [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/morm/2/10#10 Mormon 2:10])
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'''SAMUEL''' is the English rendering of the Hebrew name ''šĕmûʾēl''. Other Hebrew names in the Book of Mormon are also reproduced in their English form and not according to their Hebrew pronunciation. For example, the Book of Mormon has [[JACOB|J<small>ACOB</small>]], not the Hebrew form ''Ya’ăkōb'', and [[MESSIAH|M<small>ESSIAH</small>]] and not ''Māšȋāḥ''.
'''SAMUEL''' is from the Hebrew ''shemuʾēl'' "name of El" or "his name is El"; cf. Amorite ''Sa- mu-ú-i-la'', ''Sa-mi-ya'', ''Su-mu-i-la'' <ref>See Herbert B. Huffmon, ''Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study'' [Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1965], 247-48</ref> and Ugaritic ''šum-addi'', ''šumu-abi''<ref>Frauke Gröndahl, ''Die Personennamen der Texte aus Ugarit'' [Rome: Päpstliches Bibelinstitut, 1967], 193-94</ref>.
 
[[SAMUEL|S<small>AMUEL</small>]] is composed of two common Semitic vocables, ''šm'' and ''ʾl''. The former means “the name,” “Name,” or even “descendant/offspring;”<ref>''HALOT'', sub שמואל. See also Scott C. Layton, ''Archaic Features of Canaanite Personal Names in the Hebrew Bible'', Harvard Semitic Monographs 47 (Atlanta, GA: Shcolars Press, 1990), 78, 86, and note 232.</ref> and the latter is the common Semitic word for “god” or “El.” Thus the name could mean, “Name of God,” “The Name is God/El,” or “Scion of God.”<ref>See ''HALOT'', sub שמואל. For a thorough discussion of the name, see Layton, 78-87.</ref>


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Revision as of 11:53, 13 March 2012

Lehite PN 1. A Book of Mormon PN of a Lamanite prophet (Helaman 13:2, 5; 14:1; 16:1, 2, 5, 6; 3 Nephi 1:5, 6, 9; 8:3; 20:24; 23:9, 10)

SAMUEL is from the Hebrew shemuʾēl "name of El" or "his name is El"; cf. Amorite Sa- mu-ú-i-la, Sa-mi-ya, Su-mu-i-la [1] and Ugaritic šum-addi, šumu-abi[2].

Notes

  1. ↑ See Herbert B. Huffmon, Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study [Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1965], 247-48
  2. ↑ Frauke Gröndahl, Die Personennamen der Texte aus Ugarit [Rome: Päpstliches Bibelinstitut, 1967], 193-94
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