Keywords
Nephi, Book of Mormon, tree of life, idiom
Abstract
Nephi, in composing his psalm (2 Nephi 4:15–35), incorporates a poetic idiom from Psalm 18:10 (2 Samuel 22:11) and Psalm 104:3 to describe his participation in a form of divine travel. This experience constituted a part of the vision in which he saw “the things which [his] father saw” in the latter’s dream of the tree of life (see 1 Nephi 11:1–3; 14:29– 30). Nephi’s use of this idiom becomes readily apparent when the range of meaning for the Hebrew word rûaḥ is considered. Nephi’s experience helps our understanding of other scriptural scenes where similar divine travel is described.
Recommended Citation
Bowen, Matthew L.
(2023)
"“Upon the Wings of His Spirit”: A Note on Hebrew rûaḥ and 2 Nephi 4:25,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 58, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol58/iss1/5
