Anyone know the meaning of the word halt used in 3 Nephi?


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21 minutes ago, 1blindi said:

It an old usage: https://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-hal2.htm#:~:text=It%20is%20better%20for%20thee,be%20cast%20into%20everlasting%20fire.&text=But%20the%20Oxford%20English%20Dictionary,disability%20than%20just%20a%20limp.

To quote from this:

Halt here means limping and is a different and much older word to the one meaning to stop (which was originally a German military term of the late sixteenth century). It has long been archaic. We know it today almost exclusively in the set phrases the halt and the lame and the halt, the lame and the blind, though we do retain halting in phrases such as halting speech, where it means slow and hesitant.

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The Book of Mormon was translated into early 19th century English.

I have referred to it many times when studying the Book of Mormon.

 

Halt.

1) To stop in walking; to hold.  In military affairs, the true sense is retained, to stop in a march.  The army halted at noon.

2) To limp, that is, to stop with lameness

3) To hesitate; to stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do

 

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1 hour ago, mikbone said:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/1828/id483256257

Check out this iphone app for the 1828 version of Webster's Dictionary

The Book of Mormon was translated into early 19th century English.

I have referred to it many times when studying the Book of Mormon.

 

Halt.

1) To stop in walking; to hold.  In military affairs, the true sense is retained, to stop in a march.  The army halted at noon.

2) To limp, that is, to stop with lameness

3) To hesitate; to stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do

 

I think in the context of the scripture, #2 would be the most appropriate.

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