Shiblum / shillum / shilum Variants
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Variant Spellings of SHIBLUM
shillum
- Alma 11:16
- O: shiblum > shillum > shilum
- P: shilum
- 1830-1981: shiblum
shilum
- Alma 11:16
- O: shiblum > shillum > shilum
- P: shilum
- 1830-1981: shiblum
- Alma 11:17
- O, P: shilum
- 1830-1981: shiblum
Discussion: Cowdery first wrote shiblum, then shillum, then shilum in O for the first occurrence. Since Oliver would not have known how many l's shilum has, Joseph Smith must have spelled it out for him. The second occurrence shows no correction, but when the 1830 compositor set the name, he spelled it as shiblum, probably because of shiblon.
Summary: Skousen accepts shilum.
Source: ATV 3:1810-11; FARMS, Book of Mormon Critical Text: A Tool for Scholarly Reference 2:859.