The
Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which, according to Latter Day Saint theology, contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from 600 BC to AD 421 and during an interlude date ...
describes a number of individuals unique to its narrative as
prophet
In religion, a prophet or prophetess is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the s ...
s. Here, the prophets included are those who, according to the narrative, inherited the plates of Nephi and who otherwise are called prophets within the text. Also included are the high priests mentioned and the missionaries.
In Nephi
The following prophets (or in some cases, simply people who kept the record and passed it to future generations) are those mentioned in the plates of Nephi (
1 Nephi through
Omni).
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Lehi
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Nephi
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Jacob
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Enos Enos or Enosh (Hebrew: , Standard ''Enosh'', Tiberian ''ʼĔnôš''; "mortal man”) may refer to:
People in religious scripture
* Enos (biblical figure), a genealogical figure in the Bible.
* The Book of Enos, one of the books that make up the B ...
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Jarom According to the Book of Mormon, Jarom () was a Nephite prophet, the son of the prophet Enos, who lived from about 420 BC to about 361 BC. Jarom is thought to have authored the Book of Jarom, which comprises 15 verses in the Book of Mormon.
Family ...
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Omni
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Amaron
:''Amaron should not be confused with Ammaron, Ammoron, or Amoron, three other Book of Mormon figures with similar names.''
According to the Book of Mormon, Amaron () was a Nephite record keeper, who received the Plates of Nephi from his father O ...
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Chemish According to the Book of Mormon, Chemish () was a Nephite record keeper. He received the Book of Mormon record from his brother Amaron, and penned a single verse in the Book of Omni (Omni 1:9) before passing the record to his son Abinadom:
9 Now ...
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Abinadom According to the Book of Mormon, Abinadom () was a Nephite record keeper and the son of Chemish. He received the Plates of Nephi from his father and penned two verses in the Book of Omni before conferring the record to his son, Amaleki.
Verses attr ...
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Amaleki
According to the Book of Mormon, Amaleki () was a Nephite record keeper (ca 130 BC). He received the plates of Nephi from his father Abinadom, and penned 18 verses in the Book of Omni (Omni 1:12-30). He was the last person to write in the sma ...
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Neum
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Zenos
According to the Book of Mormon, Zenos () was an old world prophet whose pre-Christian era writings were recorded upon the plates of brass. Zenos is quoted or paraphrased a number of times by writers in the ''Book of Mormon'', including Nephi, Ja ...
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Zenock
In the Book of Mormon, Zenock () is a nonbiblical prophet whose described life predates the events of the book's main plot and whose prophecies and statements are recorded upon the brass plates possessed by the Nephites. In the narrative, Zenock i ...
In Mormon and Moroni
The following prophets are those mentioned in
Mormon's abridgement of the large plates of Nephi (
Mosiah through
Moroni, excluding
Ether
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).
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King Benjamin
According to the Book of Mormon, King Benjamin, son of King Mosiah the first, was the second Nephite king to rule over Zarahemla. An account of his life and teachings are recorded in both the Words of Mormon and the Book of Mosiah. He was consid ...
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Mosiah
* Ammon
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Abinadi
According to the Book of Mormon, Abinadi () was a prophet who lived on the American continent about 150 BC. In the Book of Mormon account, Abinadi visited the court of King Noah at Lehi-Nephi, and pleaded for them to repent of their iniquity and ...
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Alma the Elder
According to the Book of Mormon, Alma () was a Nephite prophet who established the Church of Jesus Christ in the Americas during the reign of the wicked King Noah. One of the Book of Mormon's greatest figures, he is sometimes referred to as Al ...
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Alma the Younger
According to the Book of Mormon, Alma, the son of Alma () was a Nephite prophet often referred to as Alma the Younger to distinguish him from his father, who is often referred to as Alma the Elder. These appellations, "the Younger" and "the Elde ...
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Sons of Mosiah
According to the Book of Mormon, Mosiah II (), King Benjamin's son and Mosiah I's grandson, was king of the Nephite nation from about 124 BC to 91 BC. The Book of Mosiah is named after Mosiah II. Mosiah was also a prophet and is described by Ammo ...
** Aaron
** Ammon
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Omner
According to the Book of Mormon, Omner () was a Nephite missionary and one of the sons of King Mosiah II. He was also brother to the prophet Ammon. As related in the Book of Mormon narrative, Omner and his three brothers (Ammon, Aaron, and Himn ...
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Himni In religion, according to the Book of Mormon Himni () was a Nephite missionary and one of the sons of King Mosiah, and brother to the prophet Ammon. According to the Book, Himni and his three brothers Ammon, Omner, and Aaron left their father, an ...
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Amulek
Amulek () is a key figure in the Book of Alma, a book of the Book of Mormon.
Mission to Ammonihah
According to Alma, chapters 8-14, Amulek, in 82 B.C., accompanied the prophet Alma the Younger on a mission to the wicked city of Ammonihah, where h ...
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Zeezrom
According to the Book of Mormon, Zeezrom () was an ancient American lawyer (one who is expert in the Hebrew Law, or the Law of Moses) who sought to destroy the liberty of the Nephites via his legal practice. He was converted to the gospel by Alma t ...
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Helaman
The Book of Mormon mentions three men named Helaman ( ). The first was the son of King Benjamin, king of the united Nephite-Zarahemla kingdom who lived in the 2nd century BC. Besides his genealogy, information about the first Helaman is limite ...
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Shiblon
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Corianton, after his repentance
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Helaman II The lineage of Alma the Younger is a set of minor figures from the Book of Mormon who descended from Alma the Younger. They are described as Nephite record-keepers, missionaries and prophets.
Family tree
Ammaron
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Nephi
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Lehi
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Samuel the Lamanite
According to the Book of Mormon, Samuel the Lamanite is a prophet who lived in the ancient Americas, sent by Jesus Christ around 5 BC to teach and warn the Nephites just before his birth in the Old World. The account is recorded in Helaman 13-16 ...
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Gidgiddoni
According to the Book of Mormon, Gidgiddoni () was a prophet and the commander of the Nephite armies in the war between the Nephites and the Gadianton robbers. He was appointed in about AD 16 by Lachoneus to lead the armies because he had the sp ...
[3 Nephi 3:18-19, Book of Mormon]
* Disciples of Christ
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Nephi
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Timothy
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Nephi, son of Nephi the Disciple
** Jonas, the son of Nephi
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Mathoni
This list is intended as a quick reference for individuals mentioned in the Book of Mormon.
Notation
Names with superscripts (e.g., Nephi1) are numbered according to the index in the LDS scripture, the Book of Mormon. Missing indices indica ...
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Mathonihah
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Kumen
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A chapel
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Kumenonhi
This list is intended as a quick reference for individuals mentioned in the Book of Mormon.
Notation
Names with superscripts (e.g., Nephi1) are numbered according to the index in the LDS scripture, the Book of Mormon. Missing indices indica ...
** Jeremiah
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Shemnon
This list is intended as a quick reference for individuals mentioned in the Book of Mormon.
Notation
Names with superscripts (e.g., Nephi1) are numbered according to the index in the LDS scripture, the Book of Mormon. Missing indices indica ...
** Jonas
** Zedekiah
** Isaiah
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Amos
Amos or AMOS may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Amos Records, an independent record label established in Los Angeles, California, in 1968
* Amos (band), an American Christian rock band
* ''Amos'' (album), an album by Michael Ray
* ''Amos' ...
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Amos II
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Ammaron
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Mormon
Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. After Smith's death in 1844, the movement split into several ...
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Moroni
In Ether
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Mahonri Moriancumer
In the Book of Mormon, the brother of Jared is the most prominent person in the account given in the beginning (Chapters 1–6) of the Book of Ether. The brother of Jared's name is not given in the text of the Book of Mormon but Joseph Smith state ...
, the brother of Jared
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Ether
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Biblical prophets
Various Old Testament prophets are also quoted or mentioned in the Book of Mormon. These include:
* Adam
* Noah
* Joseph
* Jacob
* Moses
* Isaiah
* David via Psalms
* John the Revelator
See also
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a Nontrinitarianism, nontrinitarian Christianity, Christian church that considers itself to be the Restorationism, restoration of the ...
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President of the Church
In the Latter Day Saint movement, the President of the Church is generally considered to be the highest office of the church. It was the office held by Joseph Smith, founder of the movement, and the office assumed by many of Smith's claimed succe ...
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Prophet, seer, and revelator
Prophet, seer, and revelator is an ecclesiastical title used in the Latter Day Saint movement. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is the largest denomination of the movement, and it currently applies the terms to the membe ...
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Table of prophets of Abrahamic religions
This is a table containing prophets, sometimes called messengers, of the Abrahamic religions.In Judaism and Islam the classification of some people as prophets includes those who are not explicitly called so in the Hebrew Bible or Quran. Judaism ...
Further reading
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References
External links
List of Book of Mormon prophets
{{DEFAULTSORT:Book Of Mormon Prophets
Prophets
In religion, a prophet or prophetess is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the su ...