Article Title

Scripture Update: Lehi as a Visionary Man

Authors

Matthew Roper

Keywords

Bible, Lehi, prophets, revelation, scripture

Abstract

One of the complaints leveled against Lehi by his rebellious sons Laman and Lemuel and his wife, Sariah, was that he was a “visionary man” (1 Nephi 2:11; 5:2). Although this term does not appear in the King James translation of the Bible, it accurately reflects the Hebrew word hazon, meaning divine vision.1 Although this Hebrew term appears in connection with true prophets of God, it is also sometimes written with a negative connotation, describing false prophets, especially in the writings of Lehi’s contemporary Jeremiah (Jeremiah 14:14; 23:16).

Recommended Citation

Roper, Matthew (2007) "Scripture Update: Lehi as a Visionary Man," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 27: No. 4, Article 2.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol27/iss4/2