Sunday, July 27, 2014

A Miscellany of Book of Mormon Word Usage

Loren Spendlove recently published an article entitled "Understanding Nephi with the Help of Noal Webster," It contains notes on a number of word usages in the Book of Mormon. Included are (in alphabetical order not necessarily the order in the article or in the Book of Mormon):

abode (as a verb)
about
arise
arrive
astonishment
at Jerusalem
attitude
awful
bands
begat
behold
big with child
blind
broken up
breathe out
brought down
carried up
caught away
chasten
choice (as an adjective)
comfort
compass (as a noun)
condescension
confounded
consuming
contentions
convincing
counsels
crucified
cunning arts
curious
daughters
deceive
deliverance
destroy
digged
dimmed
doubt
dreary
dust
easiness
err
estimeth
expedient
fair
faithful
faithfulness
family
favored
fell down
fool
foolish imaginations
forwards
fruits
gift
give
glory
goodly
gray
guilty
gulf
happy
harlots
have place
hearken
history
holy
in one
Jews
journey
judged
like unto
linen
loading
made mention
meat
methought
ministry
molten
mount
mine
must needs
nature
neither
no more
nourish
nourishmet
obscurity
obtain
of
partook of
pass away
pleasure
preserve
probation
proceedings
prophesying
publish
purity
put forth
raise up
rebel (as a verb)
rebellion
record (as a noun)
redeemer
redemption
rent (as a verb)
required
robe
rudeness
rumors
seek
set at naught
shake
sheddeth
shewn
sight
slow
somewhat
spake
special
standard (as a noun)
stature
statute
storm
straight
strange
stricken
stumble
stumbling blocks
suck (as a noun)
swallowed up
swift
swollen
tasks
tempest
that
the which
threatenings
tidings
timbers
touch
trample under
travel
turned aside
turn away
unto
vapor
very
visionary man
wade
weakness
whatsoever
wherewith
which
white
whoso
wrath
wroth
wrought

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