Nephi (disambiguation)

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Nephi may refer to:

Contents 1 People 2 Places 3 Book of Mormon 3.1 Books 3.2 People 3.3 Places

[edit] People

• Nephi Malit, an independent songwriter and musician from the Philippines.
• Nephi Anderson, a prominent early LDS fiction author.

[edit] Places

• Nephi, Utah, a small American town founded by Mormons in the 1850s.

[edit] Book of Mormon

In the Book of Mormon:

[edit] Books

• The First Book of Nephi, written by Nephi, son of Lehi.
• The Second Book of Nephi, written by Nephi, son of Lehi.
• Third Nephi, the eleventh book of the Book of Mormon, written by Nephi, son of Helaman.
• Fourth Nephi, the twelfth book of the Book of Mormon, written by Nephi III and his descendants.
• The Small Plates of Nephi, a book of metal plates that Joseph Smith, Jr. said was part of the golden plates.
• The Large Plates of Nephi, a book of metal metal plates, of which the majority of the Book of Mormon is said to be an abridgment and translation.

[edit] People

• Nephi, son of Lehi, prophet and founder of the Nephites.
• Nephi, son of Helaman, a Nephite missionary.
• Nephi the Disciple, son of the preceding Nephi, one of the 12 Nephite disciples of Christ.
• Nephi III, son of Nephi the Disciple, namesake of the Fourth Book of Nephi and author of its first 18 verses.
• Moroni (Book of Mormon prophet), identified as Nephi in Joseph Smith, Jr.'s 1838 account of a visit from an angel in 1823, later changed by Mormon historians to Moroni based on Smith's other versions of the story.
• The name-title of various Nephite kings, analogous to the way Roman Emperors used "Caesar" (see Jacob 1:11).

[edit] Places

• Lehi-Nephi, a region in the Americas first settled by Lehi and Nephi after they crossed the ocean from the Middle East in a ship, later abandoned to the Lamanites.
• City of Nephi, the most prominent city in Lehi-Nephi.