Friday, November 17, 2023

Stephen Smoot on "Jah-oh-Eh" in Facsimile 2, Figure 1

  

Jah-oh-eh, said here to mean “the measurement of this earth,” might reflect a rendering of the Egyptian word for “soil, field” (Ꜣḥ/Ꜣḥt), or, alternatively, could be a rendering of the Tetragrammaton, the divine name (YHWH; Jehovah), but these identifications remain tentative. (Stephen O. Smoot, The Pearl of Great Price: A Study Edition for Latter-day Saints [Springville, Utah: Book of Mormon Central, 2022], 89)