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Were it not that Ugaritic ''suʾnu'' “hem, border” and Akkadian ''sūnu'' “hem” unequivocally have a /u/ vowel, it might be tempting to see a play on words in the text where he is first mentioned as “having blood on the skirts of his cloak” ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/9.26?lang=eng#25 Helaman 9:26]). | Were it not that Ugaritic ''suʾnu'' “hem, border” and Akkadian ''sūnu'' “hem” unequivocally have a /u/ vowel, it might be tempting to see a play on words in the text where he is first mentioned as “having blood on the skirts of his cloak” ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/9.26?lang=eng#25 Helaman 9:26]). | ||
Other suggestions include [[EGYPTIAN(S)|E<small> | Other suggestions include [[EGYPTIAN(S)|E<small>GYPTIAN</small>]] prefix ''s3'', “son” ([[John A. Tvedtnes|JAT]]). [[Hugh W. Nibley|Nibley]] has suggested a cognate of [[EGYPTIAN(S)|E<small>GYPTIAN</small>]]-Hittite Sandon, Sandas<ref>[[Hugh W. Nibley, "Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites." John W. Welch, Darrell L. Matthews, and Stephen R. Callister, eds. Collected Works of Hugh Nibley. 5. Salt Lake City/Provo: Deseret Book/FARMS, 1988.|Hugh W. Nibley, ''Lehi in the Desert/The World of the Jaredites/There Were Jaredites'']] (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book/Provo: FARMS, 1988, 33; Id., [[Hugh Nibley, An Approach to the Book of Mormon. 3rd ed. Collected Works of Hugh Nibley 6. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, FARMS, 1988.|''An Approach to the Book of Mormon'']], (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book/Provo FARMS, 1989), 238</ref>. | ||
Cf. Book of Mormon [[ANTUM|A<small>NTUM</small>]], [[SEEZORAM|S<small>EEZORAM</small>]], [[CEZORAM|C<small>EZORAM</small>]], et al., [[TEANCUM|T<small>EANCUM</small>]] | Cf. Book of Mormon [[ANTUM|A<small>NTUM</small>]], [[SEEZORAM|S<small>EEZORAM</small>]], [[CEZORAM|C<small>EZORAM</small>]], et al., [[TEANCUM|T<small>EANCUM</small>]] | ||
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| Lehite PN | 1. | Member of GADIANTON BAND, brother of Chief Judge SEEZORAM; ca. 23 BC both were murdered (Helaman 9:26) |
Etymology
SEANTUM could be composed of two Semitic roots, šʾn, as represented in the Hebrew šĕʾān, “place of rest”[1] and Ugaritic “to be at ease;”[2] and tmm as found in Hebrew tōm and tūm meaning “perfection, in full measure”[3] Therefore, the meaning of SEANTUM could be “place of complete rest” or “rest of perfection.”
Were it not that Ugaritic suʾnu “hem, border” and Akkadian sūnu “hem” unequivocally have a /u/ vowel, it might be tempting to see a play on words in the text where he is first mentioned as “having blood on the skirts of his cloak” (Helaman 9:26).
Other suggestions include EGYPTIAN prefix s3, “son” (JAT). Nibley has suggested a cognate of EGYPTIAN-Hittite Sandon, Sandas[4].
Cf. Book of Mormon ANTUM, SEEZORAM, CEZORAM, et al., TEANCUM
Variants
Deseret Alphabet: 𐐝𐐀𐐈𐐤𐐓𐐊𐐣 (siːæntʌm)
Notes
- ↑ HALOT: שאן.
- ↑ Dietrich, Manfred and Oswald Loretz, ed. Analytic Ugaritic Bibliography 1792-1988. AOAT 20/6 (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1996), 785.
- ↑ HALOT: תם.
- ↑ Hugh W. Nibley, Lehi in the Desert/The World of the Jaredites/There Were Jaredites (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book/Provo: FARMS, 1988, 33; Id., An Approach to the Book of Mormon, (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book/Provo FARMS, 1989), 238
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