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[[Zeniff Variants|Zenith]]
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'''[[Deseret Alphabet]]:''' ๐ž๐€๐ค๐†๐™ (zinษชf)
'''[[Deseret Alphabet]]:''' ๐ž๐€๐ค๐†๐™ (ziหnษชf)


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[[Category:Names]][[Category:Lehite PN]]
[[Category:Names]][[Category:Lehite PN]]

Revision as of 17:07, 14 June 2013

Lehite PN 1. King of LEHI-NEPHI, ca. 200 BC (Mosiah 7:9, 13, 21 (x2); 8:2; 9:Preface, 1; 10:19; 11:1; 25:5 (x2))

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Etymology

โ€œZENIFF certainly suggests the name Zainab and its variants, popular among the desert people, of which the feminine form of Zenobia was born by [a famous Arab queen]โ€ (HWN in ABM 234).

Cf. snb (znb), โ€œvery common elements in Egyptian proper names, cf. Seneptaโ€ (snp-t3) (HWN in LID 28).

Cf. zinapa, the cuneiform rendering of an EGYPTIAN name (HWN in SC 194).

Cf. Book of Mormon ZENEPHI, et al.

ZENIFF. โ€œZinapaโ€ = โ€œcuneiform rendering of an EGYPTIAN name.โ€ Nibley, Since Cumorah, p. 194.

Arabic, corruption of Zainab. Nibley, An Approach to the Book of Mormon, p. 234 and 340.

z-n-b, s-n-b = โ€œcommon elements of EGYPTIAN proper names.โ€ Nibley, Lehi in the Desert, p. 30.

See also Zeniff Variants

Variants

Zenith

Deseret Alphabet: ๐ž๐€๐ค๐†๐™ (ziหnษชf)

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