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| |Shipbuilder near the lands [[BOUNTIFUL|B<small>OUNTIFUL</small>]] and [[DESOLATION|D<small>ESOLATION</small>]] who launched the ships at the west side of the narrow neck of land ca. 55 BC ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/63/5#5 Alma 63:5]) | | |[[NEPHITE(S)|N<small>EPHITE</small>]] who built and sailed ships to the "west sea" ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/63/5#5 Alma 63:5]) |
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| There are several biblical PNs which resemble '''HAGOTH''', all derived from ''ḫgg'', “to celebrate, sacrifice,” and ''ḫg'', “festival, holiday” (cp. Arabic ''ḫajj'', “pilgrimage [to Mecca]”).
| | '''HAGOTH''' is a PN related to the Hebrew ''ḥag'', "feast; procession, round dance"; cf. biblical PN Haggai; Haggith. |
| Related biblical PNs include Haggai (the prophet whose name means “born on the feast-day” [Noth 222]), Haggi (a son of Gad and father of the Haggites), Haggiah
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| (a Levite), and Haggith (one of [[DAVID|D<small>AVID</small>]]’s wives). It would be easy to see in H<small>AGOTH</small> a plural or preferably an abstract of ''ḫg'', namely “festival,” yielding a hypocoristic name
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| such as “[God is the] festival,” or “[the one of the] festival.”
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| The particular form of this name may be derived from the root ''ḫg'' and the common Semitic abstract marker ''-ūt''. This affix normally is pronounced ''ut'' in Hebrew, but in a
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| few instances seems to have shifted in sound to an ''ot'', e.g., ''twmkj'' (Gesenius 86l and 97t,u). The ''t'' in Hebrew currently (not biblically?) has two pronunciations, ''t'' and ''th'',
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| the latter representing the aspirated ''t''. The context of the single Hebrew consonant represented by ''t'' and ''th'', ''t'', determines which pronunciation is required.
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| There is in Deuteronomy or Judges a masculine name that ends in ''ot''. Find it and add it to this list. FOUND: [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/judg/4/4#4 Judges 4:4], Lapidoth, husband of Deborah.
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| The ending ''-oth'' looks like the Hebrew f.p., but it also appears on masculine PNs, e.g., Naboth in [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/1_kgs/21 1 Kings 21] passim and Meraioth in [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/ezra/7/3#3 Ezra 7:3].
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| Beginning Hebrew students are always puzzled by the fact that some obviously masculine nouns take the so-called “feminine” ending, ''ōt'', in the plural. For example, the
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| plural of “father” in Hebrew does not take the expected masculine form ''*ʾabbīm'', but the unexpected ''ʾabbōt''. Suffice it to say that because of such examples there is still
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| much discussion on the origin of the Semitic masculine and feminine plurals, especially whether or not they originally had anything to do with gender.
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| A second, less likely possible etymology would derive H<small>AGOTH</small> from ''ḥgh'', * “take asylum or refuge,” as in the noun form ''ḥgīm'', “clefts of the rocks, places of refuge” ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/isa/2/21#21 Isaiah 2:21]; [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/song/2/14#14 The Song of Solomon 2:14]; [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/obad/1/3 Obadiah 1:3]; [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/jer/49/16#16 Jeremiah 49:16]). This, however, is less likely because the plural form takes the ending ''-īm'', not the ''-oth'' of the Book of
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| Mormon name. Therefore, it is doubtful that H<small>AGOTH</small> comes from this root, although it provides a nice hypocoristic name meaning “[God is] refuge.”
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| See also [[EGYPTIAN(S)|E<small>GYPTIAN</small>]] ''ḥgwt''. *(who?)
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