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==Nahom and ritual mourning== | ==Nahom and ritual mourning== | ||
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− | The name of the area in Yemen now mapped as "Nehem" is pronounced by local inhabitants Nä-hum, derived from the Arabic root nhm, whose basic meaning is "growl, groan, roar; suffer from hunger; complain." The same root is found in biblical Hebrew (see Isaiah 5:29-30; Hosea 2:23) and in ancient Egyptian (nhm, "thunder, shout"; nhmhm, "roar, thunder"). Thus a ritual concomitant of mourning (groaning) is also associated with this root, as well as the sense of suffering from hunger, which is equally apt in the context of 1 Nephi 16:35, which reports much complaining, suffering, and hunger.<ref>{{Book:Welch:Reexploring the Book of Mormon|pages=[http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1110&index=13 Chapter 13, {{sofr}}]|author=Warren P. Aston and Michaela J. Aston|article=Lehi's Trail and Nahom Revisited}} </ref></blockquote></onlyinclude> | + | The name of the area in Yemen now mapped as "Nehem" is pronounced by local inhabitants Nä-hum, derived from the Arabic root nhm, whose basic meaning is "growl, groan, roar; suffer from hunger; complain." The same root is found in biblical Hebrew (see Isaiah 5:29-30; Hosea 2:23) and in ancient Egyptian (nhm, "thunder, shout"; nhmhm, "roar, thunder"). Thus a ritual concomitant of mourning (groaning) is also associated with this root, as well as the sense of suffering from hunger, which is equally apt in the context of 1 Nephi 16:35, which reports much complaining, suffering, and hunger.<ref>{{Book:Welch:Reexploring the Book of Mormon|pages=[http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1110&index=13 Chapter 13], {{sofr}}]|author=Warren P. Aston and Michaela J. Aston|article=Lehi's Trail and Nahom Revisited}} </ref></blockquote></onlyinclude> |
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The name of the area in Yemen now mapped as "Nehem" is pronounced by local inhabitants Nä-hum, derived from the Arabic root nhm, whose basic meaning is "growl, groan, roar; suffer from hunger; complain." The same root is found in biblical Hebrew (see Isaiah 5:29-30; Hosea 2:23) and in ancient Egyptian (nhm, "thunder, shout"; nhmhm, "roar, thunder"). Thus a ritual concomitant of mourning (groaning) is also associated with this root, as well as the sense of suffering from hunger, which is equally apt in the context of 1 Nephi 16:35, which reports much complaining, suffering, and hunger.[1]
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