riverogue Posted February 16, 2011 Report Posted February 16, 2011 interesting words not unique to Mormonism before 1830urim and thummimGoogle Ngram ViewerDeseretGoogle Ngram ViewerKolobGoogle Ngram Viewer Quote
riverogue Posted February 17, 2011 Author Report Posted February 17, 2011 (edited) obviously urim and thummim is Hebrew, it is in the Old Testiment. I'm trying to research the context and origin of the other words as they were used outside of mormonism. Also, the NGram viewer is also case-sensitive, which can give much different results. Edited February 17, 2011 by riverogue Quote
mordorbund Posted February 17, 2011 Report Posted February 17, 2011 "deseret" (outside the Mormon context) is a Latin word. It means "to leave, abandon, foresake". It shows up in a number of latin texts. The Kolob one has a few hits, but they're insignificant when you zoom out to post 1850. Quote
volgadon Posted February 17, 2011 Report Posted February 17, 2011 Kolob mainly shows up in German and French lexicons and other works, referencing an Arabic word. Quote
NeuroTypical Posted February 17, 2011 Report Posted February 17, 2011 Looks like Deseret is either LDS or latin, and kolob is either LDS or german or french. Although there is that one instance of an 1824 usage of kolob as community leader from the Sinai. Interesting stuff. Quote
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