JACOBITES
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| Lehite gentlic | 1. | Descendants of JACOB, the son of LEHI (Jacob 1:13; 4 Nephi 1:36, 37; Mormon 1:8) |
Etymology
Gentilic of JACOB (the gentilic "-ite" form is the equivalent of the Hebrew/Semitic -iy = î).[1]
Cf. Book of Mormon JACOB and JACOBUGATH.
Variants
Deseret Alphabet:
Notes
- ↑ Edward Lipiński, Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar (Leuven: Peeters, 1997), 224-25.
