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|Officer, 1st century BC ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/57/28#28 Alma 57:28]; [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/58/23#23 58:23])
|Officer, 1st century BC ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/57.28,%2029,%2030,%2036?lang=eng#27 Alma 57:28, 29, 30, 36]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/58.16,%2017,%2019,%2020,%2023?lang=eng#15 58:16, 17, 19, 20, 23])
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|City, ca. 67 BC ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/51/26#26 Alma 51:26]; [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/hel/5/15#15 Helaman 5:15])
|City, ca. 67 BC ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/51.26?lang=eng#25 Alma 51:26]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/55.7,%2016,%2025,%2026?lang=eng#6 55:7, 16, 25, 26]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/5.15?lang=eng#14 Helaman 5:15 (x2)])
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Revision as of 17:18, 12 July 2012

Lehite PN 1. Officer, 1st century BC (Alma 57:28, 29, 30, 36; 58:16, 17, 19, 20, 23)
Lehite GN 2. City, ca. 67 BC (Alma 51:26; 55:7, 16, 25, 26; Helaman 5:15 (x2))

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Etymology

Cf. the KJV GN Gidom = infinitive construct Hebrew gid‘ōm “they had been cut down,” with 3rd masculine plural suffix (Judges 20:45; JH),[1] and gidu, a village near Ebla (JAT).[2] This may simply be the mimated form of Hebrew gid‘ôn “Iconoclast, Destroyer, Slasher, Hacker, Hewer” (Judges 6:11– 8:35), which is the alternate name of Jeruba‘al.[3] The etymology remains obscure, though Hebrew gīd, “sinew,” is not impossible (see the “sinew” incident in Genesis 32) (JH). Nibley suggests a corruption of the Meroitic (i.e., post-LEHI, *Nubian/EGYPTIAN) names KIB and Keb.[4] If this name is related to the Book of Mormon names GIDDIANHI and GIDDONAH or GIDGIDDONAH, then the root would be *gdd or gdgd, respectively.

It would be a variant of gād, “luck, etc.” (See GAD above), though this seems less likely because the vowel quality of gād as a noun is phonemic. Even less likely is a derivation from the Hebrew PN GIDEON, though GID may be a hypocoristicon thereof (RFS). Cf. The SAMARIA ostraca seal PN gdyhw (ABM, 237), which as a hypocoristicon would be gd.

See GAD, AMGID, GIDDIANHI, GIDDONAH, GIDGIDDONAH, GIDGIDDONI.

Variants

Deseret Alphabet:

Notes

  1. ↑ G. Herion, “Gidom,” in Freedman, ed., ABD, II:1015.
  2. ↑ Pettinato, Archives.
  3. ↑ Albright, YGC, 199 n. 101; R. Boling, “Gideon,” in Freedman, ed., ABD, II:1013-1015.
  4. ↑ Nibley, Since Cumorah 194.
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