LEVI

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‡LEVI

Jaredite PN		1. King (Ether 1:20–21; 10; 14–15)

Biblical PN		2. Son of Jacob (3 Nephi 24:3)

For the etymology see the standard biblical commentaries.

In view of the fact that he sees a trend in some Jaredite names to be related to the lion and leopard (Shiblon/m, Coriantum, Coriantor, Lib, Nimrah, Nimrod), Urrutia sees 
Levi as possibly related to Hebrew lābīʾ, “lion,” where the b is pronunced v in modern Hebrew (NPSEHA, 150.0 [Aug. 1982]). This latter fact, in Tvedtnes’s view, mitigates 
against such a possibility, since it is more likely that Joseph Smith would have spelled or pronounced the name “Levi” only if it corresponded to the biblical name.