Source:Nibley:Lehi in the Desert:Ch2:the Egyptian proper name Heri-i-her-imn

Hugh Nibley: "the Egyptian proper name Heri-i-her-imn"

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Hugh Nibley: "the Egyptian proper name Heri-i-her-imn"

Hugh Nibley:

Helaman (BM), great Nephite prophet. [compare with] Her-amon (OW), "in the presence of Amon," as in the Egyptian proper name Heri-i-her-imn. Semitic "l" is always written "r" in Egyptian, which has no "l." Conversely, the Egyptian "r" is often written "l" in Semitic languages.[1]

Notes

  1. Hugh W. Nibley, Lehi in the Desert, the World of the Jaredites, There Were Jaredites, edited by John W. Welch with Darrell L. Matthew and Stephen R. Callister, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company; Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1988), Chapter 2.