JOSEPHITES

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Lehite gentilic 1. Descendants of JOSEPH the son of LEHI (Jacob 1:13; 4 Nephi 1:36, 37; Mormon 1:8)

Etymology

Gentilic of JOSEPH (the gentilic "-ite" form is the equivalent of the Hebrew and Semitic -iy = î.[1]

Variants

Deseret Alphabet: 𐐖𐐄𐐞𐐇𐐙𐐌𐐓𐐝

Notes


  1. Edward Lipiński, Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar (Leuven: Peeters, 1997), 224-25.