SHARED

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Jaredite PN 1. Challenger to the Jaredite throne (Ether 13:23; 14:8)

If Semitic languages can be appealed to for derivations of Jaredite names (SHARED may be a translation of the Jaredite name into Nephite and not a transliteration), Ugaritic šrd, “to present (an offering), bring down from God,” probably a Š-stem causative from the root yrd, “to descend,”[1] then SHARED could mean “offering” or “presentation.” Note a possible parallel construction, with interchange d > t, in the Hebrew šārēt, “service” in cultic ritual (Numbers 4:12 and 2 Chronicles 24:14), from the verb šrt meaning “to serve” in cultic ritual.[2]

Confer also the Ebla city-name *šeraduki (Pettinato, Archives) (JAT).

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Notes

  1. Analytic Ugaritic Bibliography, ed. Manfried Dietrich and Oswald Loretz, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 20/6 (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1996), 693.
  2. HALOT sub שרת.