ORIHAH

ORIHAH

Jaredite PN		King, son of Jared (Ether 1:32; 7:1)

No etymology is suggested.

If Semitic languages can be appealed to for Jaredite etymologies, then it may be that this name means “(my) light is Jehovah,” from ʾōr(ī), “(my) light,” and from the 
tetragrammaton, if -ihah is the theophoric element “Yahweh/Jehovah” (RFS; see also Reynolds, Commentary on the Book of Mormon, VI, p. 116). The pattern would be the
 same as Book of Mormon Onihah. For similar biblical PNs see ʾûrîyāh (2 Samuel 11:3; Isaiah 8:2), ʾûrīyāhū (Jeremiah 26:20), “(my) light is Jehovah,” and ʾûrī ʾēl (1 Chronicles 
15:5, 11; 2 Chronicles 13:2), “(my) light is El.” We also have West Semitic urriia (R. Zadok, BASOR 231:73) (RFS). 

Cf. Book of Mormon Onihah, Moronihah, Nephihah, Ahah