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(Shum is not in the Bible, but it is found in Moses) | (Shum is not in the Bible, but it is found in Moses) | ||
Cf. Book of Mormon [[ | Cf. Book of Mormon [[SHEM]], [[SHIM]], et al. | ||
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| Lehite noun | Measure for Gold weight, ca. 82 BC (Alma 11:5, 9) |
The most obvious possibility is Hebrew šūm (Akkadian šūmu, Sumerian s u m, Arabic tūm, Aramaic tūmâʾ) “garlic,” an unusual but not implausible name for a measure of gold.
Less likely as the source for Shum are Semitic cognates of Hebrew šēm, “name, monument,” e.g., Akkadian šumu. This root appears in the Ebla PNs ṭubi- šum and išma- šum as the theophoric element, according to Dahood (in Pettinato, Archives) (JAT).
Unlikely is the meaning *”to value” for shum (Reynolds, Commentary on the Book of Mormon, IV, p. 282).
(Shum is not in the Bible, but it is found in Moses)
