Amalickiah / Ameleckiah Variant

Variant spelling of AMALICKIAH

-Alma 46:5, 6; 47:19, 30; 49:10; 51:25

O: Ameleckiah >+ AMALICKIAH P 1830

Discussion: Spelled as Ameleckiah but immediately corrected to AMALICKIAH in O; "The common misspelling Ameleckiah is the result of Joseph Smith pronouncing the name with stress on the first syllable" (ATV 4:2529)

Acceptability: Scribal error; correct form is AMALICKIAH

Source: ATV 4:2529

-Alma 46:10

O: Ame( )eckiah

-Alma 46:11; 47:21; 51:23b, 27, 30; 54:16

O: Amelickiah

-Alma 46:30a

O: ( )male( )

-Alma 46:30b

O: Amele( )

-Alma 46:30c

O: Ameleck( )

-Alma 46:31, 33; 47:16, 18, 21, 33, 34; 48:1; 51:32, 33; 52:1, 3b; 55:5

O: Ameleckiah

-Alma 47:1, 35

O: Amaleckiah

-Alma 47:3

O: Ame( )ckiah >+ Ama( )ckiah

-Alma 47:4

O: Amelickaah >+ AMALICKIAH

-Alma 47:8

O: Anelickiahs >+ Amalickiahs

-Alma 47:11; 52:3a

O: Amelickiah >+ AMALICKIAH

-Alma 47:13a

O: Ameleckiak >+ Ameleckiah

-Alma 47:13b

O: Amelleckiah >+ Amaleckiah

-Alma 47:13c

O: Ameleckeah >+ Amaleckiah

-Alma 47:14, 15a, 20, 22

O: Ameleckiah >+ Amelickiah

-Alma 47:15b

O: Amaleckeah >+ AMALICKIAH

-Alma 47:25

O: Ameleck( ) >+ Amelick( )

-Alma 47:27a

O: Amelec( )

-Alma 47:32

O: Ameleckia( ) >+ Amelickia( )

-Alma 48:7; 51:23a

O: Ameleckiah >+ Amaleckiah

-Alma 49:25

O: Ameleckiah >+ Amelichiah

General Source: ATV 4:2529; OM 379 passim

General Summary: Skousen accepts the correct spelling as AMALICKIAH (because it is spelled this way in the first two occurrences in O, and because of corrections made); all of the other variations are scribal errors.

Other occurrences not discussed in ATV: Alma 46:7, 28, 29, 32; 47:12, 27b; 49:11; 51:9, 11, 12, 37; 62:35, but all are listed in Skousen, “Translating the Book of Mormon: The Evidence from the Original Manuscript,” in N. Reynolds, ed., Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited (FARMS, 1997), 79-82 (whole article pp. 61-95).