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|Son of [[MOSIAH]] no. 2, ca. 93 BC ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/mosiah/27/34#34 Mosiah 27:34]; [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/31/6#6 Alma 31:6])
|Son of [[MOSIAH]] II ([http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/27.8,%2010,%2032-35?lang=eng#7 Mosiah 27:8, 10, 32-35], [http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/31.6?lang=eng#5 Alma 31:6])
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'''Himni''' is constructed along the lines of many North-west Semitic names, such as biblical Hebrew Zimri, Omri, and Tibni. An etymology should be sought from the roots ḥmn and hmn. See the biblical GN Hammon ([http://scriptures.lds.org/en/josh/19/28#28 Joshua 19:28] and [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/1_chr/6/76#76 1 Chronicles 6:76]), Hamon-Gog, [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/ezek/39/11,15#11 Ezekiel 39:11, 15], and Hamonah, [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/ezek/39/16#16 Ezekiel 39:16], the latter perhaps with terminative adverbial ending, perhaps related to biblical Hebrew hāmōn, “multitude.” However, the -ōn ending in this latter word is secondary and should not be shortened to something like H<small>IMNI</small> ([[Jo Ann Hackett|JH]]).
This Nephite name, '''HIMNI''', no doubt is related to the PN ''ḥmn'' on a seal found at Megiddo.<ref>See Nahman Avigad, ''Corus of West Semitic Stamp Seals'', revised and completed by Benjamin Sass (Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, et al., 1997), 99, seal 160. Of more than passing interest is the fact that the seal has Egyptian glyptic elements. The connection between the name on this seal and the Book of Mormon name HIMNI was first pointed out in John A. Tvedtnes, John Gee, and Matthew Roper.  “Book of Mormon Names Attested in Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions,” ''JBMS'' 9/1 (2000):47.</ref>  The form of the name is identical to the biblical Hebrew names Zimri, Omri, and Tibni from approximately the same time period as the seal. The etymology is uncertain.<ref>Though the etymology is uncertain, see the suggestions in Avigad, 498.</ref>


Less likely is an etymology from the Persian name Haman in the Book of Esther. Lehi would have had little chance to bring Persian names to the Promised Land.  
Nibley suggested an Egyptian theophoric name ''Ḥmn''<ref>Nibley, ''Lehi in the Desert'', 28 = 2nd ed., 27.</ref>,  which Egyptologists interpret as a falcon-god, the falcon being symbolic of the king. This would be a reference to an obscure local-god ''Ḥemen'',<ref>Pyramid Texts 235, 483, and Book of the Dead 19: intro.</ref>  whom Faulkner lists as the god “Hemen, a falcon-god worshipped near Esna in Upper Egypt.”<ref>R. Faulkner, ''The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead'', 2nd ed. (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1985), 190; Faulkner, ''The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts'' (Oxford: Clarendon, 1969/ Sandpiper Books, 1998).</ref>


Nibley suggests Egyptian “Hmn,” a hawkgod (LID, 28). In specifying that this is a “symbol of the emperor,” does Nibley mean to imply that there is a connection with the fact that the Nephite king so named one of his sons? ([[John A. Tvedtnes|JAT]]) Smith wonders whether Nibley means hmn or ḥmn, “aged.” *CHECK NIBLEY’S SOURCE!!!([[Robert F. Smith|RFS]])
See '''[[OMNI]]''', '''[[ZERAHEMNAH]]'''


Cf. Book of Mormon [[HEM]] and [[MANTI]], [[OMNI]], [[LIMHI]], and [[ZERAHEMNAH]].
==Notes==
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Revision as of 12:05, 2 December 2011

Lehite PN 1. Son of MOSIAH II (Mosiah 27:8, 10, 32-35, Alma 31:6)

This Nephite name, HIMNI, no doubt is related to the PN ḥmn on a seal found at Megiddo.[1] The form of the name is identical to the biblical Hebrew names Zimri, Omri, and Tibni from approximately the same time period as the seal. The etymology is uncertain.[2]

Nibley suggested an Egyptian theophoric name Ḥmn[3], which Egyptologists interpret as a falcon-god, the falcon being symbolic of the king. This would be a reference to an obscure local-god Ḥemen,[4] whom Faulkner lists as the god “Hemen, a falcon-god worshipped near Esna in Upper Egypt.”[5]

See OMNI, ZERAHEMNAH

Notes

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  1. ↑ See Nahman Avigad, Corus of West Semitic Stamp Seals, revised and completed by Benjamin Sass (Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, et al., 1997), 99, seal 160. Of more than passing interest is the fact that the seal has Egyptian glyptic elements. The connection between the name on this seal and the Book of Mormon name HIMNI was first pointed out in John A. Tvedtnes, John Gee, and Matthew Roper. “Book of Mormon Names Attested in Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions,” JBMS 9/1 (2000):47.
  2. ↑ Though the etymology is uncertain, see the suggestions in Avigad, 498.
  3. ↑ Nibley, Lehi in the Desert, 28 = 2nd ed., 27.
  4. ↑ Pyramid Texts 235, 483, and Book of the Dead 19: intro.
  5. ↑ R. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, 2nd ed. (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1985), 190; Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (Oxford: Clarendon, 1969/ Sandpiper Books, 1998).
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