“O Remember, Remember That These Things Are True”

Alan C. Miner

According to Angela Crowell, in English usage, repetition of the same word is usually avoided. The reverse is true in Hebrew. Repetition was commonly used in Biblical Hebrew for emphasis, or to intensify an attribute . . . (see Deuteronomy 16:20; Isaiah 6:3; Isaiah 26:3). A prime example of this type of repetition is found in Mosiah 2:41, "O remember, remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it." [Angela M. Crowell, "Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon," in Recent Book of Mormon Developments, Vol. 2, p. 8] [See the commentary on Mosiah 4:30]

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