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Smooth Words and Slippery Things: Samuel the Lamanite's Prophetic Use of Hebrew lq

By Matthew L. Bowen
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By Matthew L. Bowen
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Abstract: Samuel the Lamanite expressly drew on the words of Isaiah (Isaiah 30:10) and possibly Jeremiah (Jeremiah 23:12) with a clever, powerful wordplay on forms of the Hebrew verbal root ḥlq: ḥălāqôt ("flattering words," literally "smooth things") and ḥălaqlaqqôt ("slippery [things]") in Helaman 13:28–36. This wordplay established a genetic relationship between yielding oneself to those who "speak flattering words unto [us]" (Helaman 13:28) and material riches and treasures becoming "sli...

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