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|'''[[:Category:Jaredite GN|Jaredite GN]]'''
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|1. [[JAREDITES|J<small>AREDITE</small>]]/Lehite city ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/9.6?lang=eng#5 3 Nephi 9:6]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/morm/6.14?lang=eng#13 Mormon 6:14]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/ether/13.27,%2029,%2030?lang=eng#26 Ether 13:27, 29, 30])
|Valley near the Plains of [[HESHLON|H<small>ESHLON</small>]] and north of the narrow neck of land ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/ether/13/27,29-30#27 Ether 13:27, 29, 30])
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|'''[[:Category:Lehite GN|Lehite GN]]'''
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|City which was swallowed by the earth ca. 30 AD ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/3_ne/9/6#6 3 Nephi 9:6])
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|'''[[:Category:Lehite PN|Lehite PN]]'''
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|Commander of 10,000 under [[MORMON|M<small>ORMON</small>]] who died in battle ca. 385 AD ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/morm/6/14#14 Mormon 6:14])
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The  KJV GN '''GILGAL''', = Hebrew ''gilgāl'' “cairn, heap of stones,” near Jericho ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/deut/11/30#30 Deuteronomy 11:30] = [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/neh/12/29#29 Nehemiah 12:29] Beth-Gilgal), derives from the root ''gll'', conveying the idea of “rolling” or “roundness.” This is the site where the [[ISRAELITES|I<small>SRAELITES</small>]] set up the twelve stones removed from the [[JORDAN|J<small>ORDAN</small>]] River at their crossing, one for each of the tribes.<ref>Reynolds and Sjodahl, Commentary on the Book of Mormon, VI, p. 41, “circle.”</ref> The Hebrew PN ''glgl'' is also found on Arad Ostracon 49 from the late 8th century BC (JAT),<ref>J. Tvedtnes, John Gee, and M. Roper in JBMS, 9/1 (2000):43.</ref> and in an Ugaritic PN (''bn'') ''glgl'' (Text 2068:13).<ref>C. H. Gordon, UTB, Glossary #577.</ref> Cf also [[EGYPTIAN(S)|E<small>GYPTIAN</small>]] ''k3rk3r'', ''krkr'' (Qarqar in Wadi Sirhan, and on the Orontes River),<ref>J. Hoch, Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts, 333; Albright, VESO, ??</ref> meaning “stones, boulders.” Cf. ''glgwl'' among the Elephantine documents (10:21) (EHA). Note also the NT GN
Golgatha, from the Hebrew ''glglt'', “skull” (Akkadian ''gulgullu'').


''gal'' is a common Sumerian vocabel meaning “large, great,” appearing in such common words as ''lu-gal'' and ''é-gal'',<ref>This is the source of Hebrew ''hykl'' from the Akkadian ''egallu''.</ref> “king” (literally “great man”) and “palace” (literally
'''GILGAL''' is a [[JAREDITES|J<small>AREDITE</small>]]/Lehite city mentioned five times in the Book of Mormon. Though Semitic etymologies for this name (mentioned about forty times in the Old Testament) are uncertain, cf. Hebrew ''gilgāl'', "stone circle; wheel," from the Hebrew verbal root ''gālal'' "roll (stone) to, roll (stone) away"; cf. Ugaritic PN ''bn glgl''.
“great house”), respectively. However, it is doubtful if this vocabel has anything to do with these Book of Mormon names.  


See also [[Gilgal / Gilgall Variant]]
See also [[Gilgal / Gilgall Variant]]
See [[GALILEE|G<small>ALILEE</small>]], [[GIMGIMNO|G<small>IMGIMNO</small>]].


==Notes==
==Notes==
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See [[GALILEE|G<small>ALILEE</small>]], [[GIMGIMNO|G<small>IMGIMNO</small>]].
[[Category:Names]][[Category:Jaredite GN]][[Category:Lehite GN]][[Category:Lehite PN]]
[[Category:Names]][[Category:Jaredite GN]][[Category:Lehite GN]][[Category:Lehite PN]]

Revision as of 12:05, 13 March 2012

Jaredite GN/Lehite GN 1. JAREDITE/Lehite city (3 Nephi 9:6; Mormon 6:14; Ether 13:27, 29, 30)

GILGAL is a JAREDITE/Lehite city mentioned five times in the Book of Mormon. Though Semitic etymologies for this name (mentioned about forty times in the Old Testament) are uncertain, cf. Hebrew gilgāl, "stone circle; wheel," from the Hebrew verbal root gālal "roll (stone) to, roll (stone) away"; cf. Ugaritic PN bn glgl.

See also Gilgal / Gilgall Variant

See GALILEE, GIMGIMNO.

Notes
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