Amalickiah / Ameleckiah Variant

Amalickiah / Ameleckiah - Variant Spelling

- Alma 46:5, 6; 47:19, 30; 49:10; 51:25 0: Ameleckiah >+ Amalickiah P 1830

Discussion: Spelled as Ameleckiah but immediately corrected to Amalickiah in 0; "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 0: Ame( )eckiah - Alma 46:11; 47:21; 51:23b, 27, 30; 54:16 0: Amelickiah - Alma 46:30a 0: ( )male( ) - Alma 46:30b 0: Amele( ) - Alma 46:30c 0: Ameleck( ) - Alma 46:31, 33; 47:16, 18, 21, 33, 34; 48:1; 51:32, 33; 52:1, 3b; 55:5 0: Ameleckiah - Alma 47:1, 35 0: Amaleckiah - Alma 47:3 0: Ame( )ckiah >+ Ama( )ckiah - Alma 47:4 0: Amelickaah >+ Amalickiah - Alma 47:8 0: Anelickiahs >+ Amalickiahs - Alma 47:11; 52:3a 0: Amelickiah >+ Amalickiah - Alma 47:13a 0: Ameleckiak >+ Ameleckiah - Alma 47:13b 0: Amelleckiah >+ Amaleckiah - Alma 47:13c 0: Ameleckeah >+ Amaleckiah - Alma 47:14, 15a, 20, 22 0: Ameleckiah >+ Amelickiah - Alma 47:15b 0: Amaleckeah >+ Amalickiah - Alma 47:25 0: Ameleck( ) >+ Amelick( ) - Alma 47:27a 0: Amelec( ) - Alma 47:32 0: Ameleckia( ) >+ Amelickia( ) - Alma 48:7; 51:23a 0: Ameleckiah >+ Amaleckiah - Alma 49:25 0: 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 0, 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).