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NA'HOM: Name of the place in the Arabian wilderness where Ishmael was buried. 1 Ne. v:44.
NAPH'TA-LI, Land of: The Bible N., in Canaan. Mentioned only in 2 Ne. ix:61.
NAZ'A-RETH: The Bible N., place where Jesus was raised. It is named only in I Ne. iii:53.
Ne'as: Name of an unknown kind of grain had among the Nephites. Mos. vi:12.
NE'HOR: The false teacher who appeared among the Nephites in the land of Zarahemla, 91 B. C., in the first year of the reign of the Judges. He murdered Gideon, was tried before Alma, convicted and executed on the hill Manti. Many believed his teaching, supported his leadership, and he wielded an influence that survived his death. We read that the people of the city Ammonihah (80 B. C.) and the majority of the Amalekites and Amulonites were of the persuasion or order of N.; also the Amlicites. Al. i:157; xi:5; xiii:4-12; xiv:54-58.
NE'HORS, Order of the: System of the religion established by Nehor, the preceding character (q. v.).
NE'HOR, City of: A Jaredite city, apparently in the land of N. (q. v.). It is mentioned only in Eth. iii:46 as the place where Shule gave battle to his brother Corihor; it was evidently where the latter reigned.
NE'HOR, Land of: Probably in Mexico. When Corihor rebelled against his father Kib, the second Jaredite king, who reigned in the land Moron, he repaired to the land of N. Eth. iii:41.
NEPHI (1) Son of Lehi. He was a prophet and eventually a king. He was born at Jerusalem, the fourth son, and was a young man when the family migrated from there 600 B. C. His tribal descent was of Manasseh. He was married in the Arabian wilderness to one of the daughters of Ishmael. When they reached the seacoast in the east of Arabia he built, or engineered the building of, the ship with which the company crossed the Pacific waters. Early he found favor with God, and early he incurred the jealousy and malice of his two eldest brothers especially. He crossed the ocean with the family and as his father advanced in age the mantle of responsibility gradually fell on his shoulders. He was custodian of the sacred records, and the maker of two distinct sets of plates (q. v.) that bare his name-the "larger" and also the "smaller" plates of N. He received the brass plates from his father and about 545 B. C. shortly before his death he committed the entire sets into the charge of his brother Jacob, his prophetic successor. The first set he made soon after their landing in America; the second set he made about 540 B. C., not till after they reached the land of N. (about 570 B. C.). His successors in the royal or priestly line were second N., third N., etc., out of respect and veneration for N. He was probably about 75-80 years of age when he died. He was the first king over the Nephites, which dignity he accepted with reluctance after the Separation (about 570 B. C.) I Ne.; 2 Ne.; Jac. i:l-4.
NE'PHI: (2) Son of Helaman III and father of the Nephi who was one of the Twelve Disciples, and brother of Lehi. He was undoubtedly born in the land of Zarahemla where his father was Chief Judge whom N. succeeded in 38 B. C. In 29 B. C. after he had reigned nine years he yielded up the judgment seat to Cezoram that he might give himself to preaching the word of God to his rapidly degenerating people. After a successful mission, along with Lehi, among the Nephites they went to Zarahemla, now occupied by the Lamanites; next among the Lamanites in the land of Nephi where they were imprisoned and miraculously delivered; thence into the land north (29-27 B. C.) where they spent about six years. Nephi returned from the north in 22 B. C. We next connect him with the "tower" episode in the city of Zarahemla. In 17 B. C. a famine came at the instance of his prayer. He is introduced to us in 43 B. C. As prophet-recorder he committed the sacred records to his son N. and departed out of the land of Zarahemla (in A. D. 1 or earlier 3 Ne. i:l-3), from which he had not returned in A. D. 9, (chap. i:46). A great contemporary of N. was Moronihah, commander in chief of the Nephite armies. Hel. ii:l 5-v.
NE'PHI: (3) The Disciple. Eldest son of N. the preceding. He was a prophet and custodian of the sacred record which he received from his father A. D. 1 or earlier) ere his mysterious departure out of the land of Zarahemla. We read of him thus in 3 Ne. i:2, 3, and in i:4-20 he is mentioned in connection with the sign of Christ's birth, with which he passes behind the veil of history to appear not again till A. D. 30 when we view him again as a revelator and preacher, chap. iii:56-70. When Jesus appeared in the land Bountiful (A. D. 34) N. was chosen as one, and apparently the foremost, of the Twelve Disciples, ix:4-19. He bap-tized the remaining eleven. There is little reference to him thereafter. During his time Lachoneus I, and Lachoneus. II reigned as chief judges in succession down to A. D. 29 when the latter was murdered and anarchy prevailed. (See succeed-ing N.)
NE'PHI: (4) If a distinct character from the preceding-and the record is not as clear on this point as it might be-he was his son. He was a custodian of the sacred plates, and from the hypothesis of his distinctness it would follow that he received the records from his father, the preceding custodian (probably about A. D. 34-36), and that he entrusted them to his son Amos, A. D. 110, the time of his death, having held them about 75 years. The particulars of his birth are not given. 4 Ne. 1, 22, 23.
NE'PHI, City of: A variant name for the city of Lehi--Nephi (q. v.) in the land of N.
NE'PHI, First book of: The first of the fifteen books of the B. of M. It has seven chapters and covers a period of about 20-30 years, or from 600 B. C., the departure from Jerusalem to 580-570 B. C., near the death of Lehi. It records the important features in reference to their migration from Jerusalem across the Arabian desert, the building of the ship, the crossing the Pacific, their debarkation, the visions of Lehi and Nephi and the teaching by N. of his brethren. Author: Nephi.
NE'PHI, Second book of: The second book of the B. of M. It has fifteen chapters and covers a period of about 30 years, or from about 580-570 B. C. to 545 B. C.-2 Ne. iv:42-45; Ja. i:l-8. It extends from Lehi's parting words to his sons (shortly after which he died) at the place of their landing, down to the last words of N. in the land of N., shortly after which Nephi died-Jac. i:9-14. 2 Ne. viii:17 -x reproduces Isa. ii-xiv with little variation. Both 1 Nephi and 2 Nephi contain a large percentage of prophetical, doctrinal and exhortatory matter; 2 Ne. witnesses the origin of the Nephite monarchy -iv:26-41. Author: Nephi
NE'PHI, Third Book of: For convenience, "3 Nephi" in this work. It is the eleventh book of the B. of M., between the book of Helaman and "4 Ne." It has fourteen chapters and covers a period of 33 years, from A. D. 1 to A. D. 33; from the great sign of the birth of Christ down to the time of his appearance in the land Bountiful. It gives an account also of the greatest struggle with the Gadianton robbers (q. v.) and the destruction of the government of the Judges. Its prominent characteristics are, therefore, the phenomenon of Christ's birth, the Gadianton war, the catastrophe, and the appearance of Christ. It is an abridgment by Mormon from accounts written by Nephi, one of the Twelve Disciples.
NE'PHI, Fourth Book of: For convenience, "4 Nephi" in this work. It has but one chapter; is the twelfth book of the B. of M. and is contained between 3 Nephi and Mormon. It embraces a period of 286 years, or from A. D. 34 to A. D. 320. It gives an account of the conversion of all the people of the land following the appearance of Jesus; the reign of unmarred peace for nearly 200 years; the terrible apostasy of the third century A. D. and the revival of the Gadianton robbers; and the hiding up of the records by Ammoron in 320 A. D. See 4th Nephi.
NE'PHI, Land of: (1) It varied in its extent, boundaries and place of occupation at different times. Describing it in the most general terms we might say that it was the land southward from Zarahemla occupied by the Nephites from the time of the Separation (570 B. C., 2 Ne. iv:7-45) down to 200 B. C. when the faithful ones of them evacuated it and, under Mosiah I, came into the land of Zarahemla (Om. 19-23) after which it was occupied by the Lamanites. Later than 200 B. C. a company of Nephites under Zeniff returned thither from Zarahemla and were ceded by the Lamanites the region of Lehi-Nephi. About 121 B. C. they returned to the land of Zarahemla during the reign of their king, Limhi; and again this portion of the land of Nephi fell into the hands of the Lamanites (Mos. v, vi, x), and the city of Lehi-Nephi became their capital. In 91 B. C. the sons of Mosiah I and others went there from Zarahemla on a mission chap. xii) and we find such subdivisions as Nephi, Ishmael, Middoni, Shilom, Shemlon, Jerusalem, Amulon and Helam, referred to. These several states were tributary to the state or land of Lehi-Nephi where the seat of the federal government was located and where the king reigned who was "king over all the land, save it were the land of Ishmael" (Al. xiii:5). The reader must learn that the land of Lehi-Nephi is sometimes called the land of N., and the city of Lehi-Nephi is again called the city of N. During the Judges, the land south was recognized by the two grand divisions-the land of Zarahemla and the land of Nephi, Al. xiii:67-77. It was bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean; on the north by the strip of wilderness between it and Zarahemla that extended from the Caribbean or the Gulf coast, probably to the Pacific Ocean.
NE'PHI, Land of: (2) Name sometimes given to the land of Lehi-Nephi (q. v.) which was but a subdivision of the land of N. proper; nevertheless the most important one in the sense that its chief city, Lehi-Nephi, was the federal capital, and the seat of the king who was king over all the land of N. proper.
NE'PHI, People of: See Nephites.
NE-PHI'HAH: Second chief judge over the Nephites in the land of Zarahemla. He succeeded Alma II (82 B. C.) who abdicated the judgment seat that he might give himself to preaching and spiritual duties. After serving in the judgment seat for fifteen years he died (67 B. C.) and was succeeded by his son Pahoran. He administered in righteousness. He was contemporary with Alma, Amulek, Zeezrom, Mosiah's sons, Korihor the Anti-Christ, Helaman, Moroni, Teancum and Lehi, and Amalickiah. It was during his reign that the peo-ple of Anti-Nephi-Lehi (Ammonites) settled in Jershon; that the Zoramites separated from the Nephites; that Amalickiah rebelled and joined the Lamanites, and that the boundary dispute arose between the peoples of Lehi and Morianton. Al. ii:22-28; xxii:40-44.
NE-PHI'HAH, City of: On the sea-board and between the cities of Moroni and Aaron. As a Nephite possession it was founded by them in 71 B. C.; probably named after N., the preceding character who was the acting chief judge. It was taken by the Lamanites under Amalickiah in 66 B. C. and retaken by the Nephites in 60 B. C. under Moroni. Al. xxii:14-25; xxiii:28-33; xxvii:5-10; xxix:16-30. It is probable that the city of N. mentioned in xxvi:19-29 is another city.
NE-PHI'HAH, Land of: Territory immediately surrounding the city of N. (q. v.)
NEPHIHAH, Plains of: Near the city of N., in a position taken by Moroni with his army to which he invited the Lamanites in the city of N. to engage him in battle. Al. xxix:20-23.
NE'PHITE: A subject of the N. nation. This singular noun occurs in Al. xiii:67-77.
NE'PHITES: The people of Nephi; who dwelt on the American continent contemporary with the Lamanites from 590 B. C. to A. D. 384. Their national existence began about 570 B. C. or about thirty or forty years after the Lehi colony departed from Jerusalem. After the death of Lehi some years after landing on the western coast of the western hemisphere the persecution by the elder brethren of Nephi and the sons of Ishmael became so bitter that Nephi with his other brothers, Sam and his family, Jacob and Joseph, their sisters, Zoram and family, and all who would go with him departed into the wilderness; and after a journey of many days they located a place which they called Nephi. And here they took "upon them to call themselves the people of Nephi," 2 Ne. iv:7-l7. Nephi becomes their first king (26-41). In 200 B. C. they, the more faithful of them, evacuated the land of Nephi--Lehi-Ne-phi, which was probably farther north than the first place they called Nephi--and came into the land of Zarahemla and united with its inhabitants who were a separate colony of Israelites Om. 19-34.) These two nations or peoples, which are thus amalgamated into one, are in common thereafter designated as Nephites; hence the distinction of Nephites became more comprehensive; and eventually it included the Lamanite converts (See Book of Alma). The first occurrence of N. is in Jac. i:13-14. It was first a lineal distinction; it became a religious and governmental one. They dwelt for the most part in the south till the fourth century A. D., when they were driven by the Lamanites into the north and destroyed at Cumorah hill A. D. 384. (See Mormon). We sometimes designate the whole Lehi colony as N. when we wish to distinguish that company from the Jaredites and the Zarahemlas, the first and third colonies. See blackness.
NE'UM
Name of a prophet quoted by Nephi. 1 Ne. v:223-244.
NEW JERUSALEM: See Jerusalem.
NIM'RAH: Son of King Akish, Jaredite. Akish starved his son to death and N., angered, collected a company and fled from the locality and came over to the east coast and joined Omer-perhaps 1800-1700 B. C. Eth. iv:7-10.
NIM'ROD: Son of the Jaredite king, Cohor. He was contemporary with Shule who was the third descendant of Jared in the royal line. The rival kingdom of the Jaredites originated with Corihor, the great-grandfather of N., and was dominated successively by Corihor, Noah and Cohor, in lineal descent. Cohor made war with the federal King Shule; was killed, and prince N. surrendered his father's kingdom to Shule. Eth. iii:67-82. Scene, probably Mexico.
NIM'ROD, Valley of: Jaredite name for the valley in which they sojourned in Asia for a season after their departure from Babel-northward. Here further directions were received from the Lord and preparations were made for the journey. Eth. 1:22-27.
NO'AH: (1) Second rebel king of the Jaredites; son of Corihor, the first king, and father of Cohor who succeeded N. He rebelled against Shule, third descendant of Jared in the royal line, took him captive and was about to put him to death, when the sons of Shule slew N. by night. Eth. iii:45-6l.
NO'AH: (2) A polygamous Nephite king. Later than 200 B. C. a colony of Nephites returned to the land of Nephi from the land of Zarahemla. They were ceded by the Lamanites the cities of Lehi-Nephi and Shemlon and the surrounding regions. They had three kings to reign over them in lineal succession; Zeniff, Noah, and Limhi. Noah indulged in great extravagances, supported iniquitous priesthood, repelled Lamanite invaders upon which his people boasted over success. The prophet Abinadi appeared with warning voice; was burned by N. Alma I then began his Christian labors. A division arose among N.'s subjects who burned him to death, after Gideon came nearly slaying him. Period, probably within 160-130 B. C. Mos. vii-ix:102, 103.
NO'AH: The Bible N.; name occurs four times in the B. of M.
NO'AH, City of: A Nephite city in the region of the city Ammonihah, in the western portion of the, Nephite possession. According to the extended use of Zarahemla in Al. xiii:67-77 it was in the land of Zarahemla. After the Lamanites had destroyed Ammonihah (80 B. C.) they destroyed some inhabitants around the borders of Noah and took others captive. This city had been so well fortified by Moroni that when the Lamanites came to attack it, being sent by Amalickiah (72 B. C.), they were terribly repulsed. Al: xi:3; xxi:159-179.
NO'AH, Land of: Territory immediately surrounding the city of N. (q. v.); probably eastward from the river Sidon.
NO'AH, Priests of: An idolatrous, licentious and lazy priesthood supported by King Noah (q. v.) in the land of Lehi-Nephi. When the king was burned the priests fled into the wilderness; from whence they afterward sallied forth and captured Lamanite daughters whom they made their wives. They eventually were discovered by the Lamanites and their leader, Amulon, gained that favor with King Laman that the latter allowed him and his brethren to become the teachers of his people in his dominions, and they also exercised oppressive jurisdiction over the people of Alma in the land of Helam-perhaps within 160-121 B. C. As late as 91-77 B. C., these priests were still subsisting in the land of Nephi; but by a reactionary influence they became the subjects of Lamanite hate and were hunted, driven and slain, in fulfillment of Abinadi's prophecy. (See Amulonites.) Mos. vii:1-27; ix:20-27, 93-116; xi:28-59; Al. xiv:59-72.
NOB: The Bible N.; a city in the lot of Benjamin. Occurs only in 2 Ne. ix:105-115 in a quotation from Isaiah x.

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