RobertFSmith

You are right, Mapman. Some of them do make a great deal of difference. Shilum, for example, means "payment, recompense," in Hebrew -- a reasonable term for a monetary or silver-weight designation in Alma 11:16 equivalent to a quarter-measure of barley.

In 1968 I walked from Eilat to the entrance of the Nephilim base. It was near the Egyptian border, northwest of Eilat and inside a forbidding set of small but sharp hills -- a very unusual geologic formation.

Isn't there an Israeli military base called Nephilim adjacent to Eilat?Anyhow, it is more likely that Nephi is an ancient Egyptian name, Nfy, which means "Captain."

Correct. Joseph and his Brethren in the School of the Prophets had a Sephardic Hebrew teacher, which is the reason for transliterating the Hebrew in Isaiah 52:7 as Nauvoo. Hugh Nibley's ward in Provo is still named Manavu Ward, using the whole phrase for "How beautiful . . ." , which is quoted by Abinadi in the Book of Mormon at Mosiah 12:21 and then in a midrash focusing on 15:15-18.