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Gender Masculine
Usage Mormon
Scripts לֶחִי(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced Pron. LEE-hie(English)

Meaning & History

From an Old Testament place name meaning "jawbone" in Hebrew, so called because it was the site where the hero Samson defeated 1,000 warriors using only the jawbone of a donkey as a weapon. It is also used in the Book of Mormon as the name of a prophet who travels out of Jerusalem and settles in the Americas.