Seon / sean Variants

Variant Spellings of SEON

sean

Alma 11:5

P: sean

1830-1981: seon

Alma 11:8

P: sean

Alma 11:9

P: S2 sean > S1 seon

Discussion: For all of the occurrences, Scribe 2 spelled seon as sean in P (he often wrote a's instead of o's, perhaps from misreading O). The last occurrence was corrected by Cowdery to read seon.

Summary: Although O is not extant here, seon will be maintained since that is Cowdery's revision.

Source: ATV 3:1806, 6:3579.