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'''Etymology'''
'''Etymology'''


One may compare the Book of Mormon [[Personal Name|PN]] '''L<small>EMUEL</small>''' with biblical Hebrew [[Personal Name|PN]] ''lĕmūʾel'', '''L<small>EMUEL</small>''', [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/prov/31/1,4#1 Proverbs 31:1, 4], composed of ''lĕmô'' plus ''ʾēl'',  meaning "belonging to God,"<ref>[[Martin Noth, Die israelitischen Personennamen im Rahmen der gemeinsemitischen Namengebung. Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament, III, 10. Stuttgart, 1928 /reprint: Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1966.|''IPN'']] 153.</ref> and possibly analogous to the biblical [[Personal Name|PN]] ''lāʾēl'', “belonging to God,” in [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/num/3.24?lang=eng#23 Numbers 3:24].<ref>[[Koehler, Ludwig, and Walter Baumgartner, The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. 5 vols. revised by W. Baumgartner and Johann J. Stamm. Leiden: Brill, 1994. trans. of 5-volume 3rd German edition.|''HALOT'']].</ref> Note the Edomite [[Personal Name|PN]] '''L<small>EMUEL</small>''' in the text “The Words of '''L<small>EMUEL</small>''', King of Massa."<ref>[[Hugh W. Nibley, "Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites." John W. Welch, Darrell L. Matthews, and Stephen R. Callister, eds. Collected Works of Hugh Nibley. 5. Salt Lake City/Provo: Deseret Book/FARMS, 1988.|''LID'']], 41-42 and [[Hugh Nibley, An Approach to the Book of Mormon. 3rd ed. Collected Works of Hugh Nibley 6. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, FARMS, 1988.|''ABM'']], 59.</ref>
One may compare the Book of Mormon [[Personal Name|PN]] '''L<small>EMUEL</small>''' with biblical Hebrew [[Personal Name|PN]] ''lĕmūʾel'', '''L<small>EMUEL</small>''', [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/prov/31/1,4#1 Proverbs 31:1, 4], composed of ''lĕmô'' plus ''ʾēl'',  meaning "belonging to God,"<ref>[[Martin Noth, Die israelitischen Personennamen im Rahmen der gemeinsemitischen Namengebung. Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament, III, 10. Stuttgart, 1928 /reprint: Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1966.|''IPN'']] 153.</ref> and possibly analogous to the biblical [[Personal Name|PN]] ''lāʾēl'', “belonging to God,” in [https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/num/3.24?lang=eng#23 Numbers 3:24].<ref>[[Koehler, Ludwig, and Walter Baumgartner, The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. 5 vols. revised by W. Baumgartner and Johann J. Stamm. Leiden: Brill, 1994. trans. of 5-volume 3rd German edition.|''HALOT'']].</ref> Note the Edomite [[Personal Name|PN]] '''L<small>EMUEL</small>''' in the text “The Words of '''L<small>EMUEL</small>''', King of Massa."<ref>[[Hugh W. Nibley, "Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites." John W. Welch, Darrell L. Matthews, and Stephen R. Callister, eds. Collected Works of Hugh Nibley. 5. Salt Lake City/Provo: Deseret Book/FARMS, 1988.|''LID'']], 41-42 and [[Hugh Nibley, An Approach to the Book of Mormon. 3rd ed. Collected Works of Hugh Nibley 6. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, FARMS, 1988.|''ABM'']], 75.</ref>


[[George Reynolds|Reynolds]] and [[Janne M. Sjodahl|Sjodahl]] (1:26) give the meaning “Godward” or “God is bright.”
[[George Reynolds|Reynolds]] and [[Janne M. Sjodahl|Sjodahl]] (1:26) give the meaning “Godward” or “God is bright.”

Revision as of 12:51, 7 April 2016

Lehite PN 1. Son of LEHI I, ca. 600 BC (1 Nephi 1:Preface; 2:5, 10, 11, 12, 18; 3:28 (x2), 31; 4:28; 7:6, 8; 8:4, 17, 35, 36; 9:1; 10:16; 16:20, 37; 18:11; 2 Nephi 1:28; 4:8, 13; Alma 3:7; 18:38; 24:29; 43:13)
Lehite GN 2. Valley near the borders of the RED SEA, named after LEHI’s son, ca. 600 BC (1 Nephi 2:14; 16:6)
3. City, 2nd c. BC, probably named after LEHI I’s son (Alma 23:12)

Etymology

One may compare the Book of Mormon PN LEMUEL with biblical Hebrew PN lĕmūʾel, LEMUEL, Proverbs 31:1, 4, composed of lĕmô plus ʾēl, meaning "belonging to God,"[1] and possibly analogous to the biblical PN lāʾēl, “belonging to God,” in Numbers 3:24.[2] Note the Edomite PN LEMUEL in the text “The Words of LEMUEL, King of Massa."[3]

Reynolds and Sjodahl (1:26) give the meaning “Godward” or “God is bright.”

See Book of Mormon LEMUELITES

See also Lemuel / Lemual Variants

Variants

lemual, Lemul

Deseret Alphabet: 𐐢𐐇𐐣𐐏𐐆𐐅𐐇𐐢 (lɛmjɪuːɛl)

Notes


  1. IPN 153.
  2. HALOT.
  3. LID, 41-42 and ABM, 75.

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