Concepts matters

Ideas and practices the text teaches or argues over: covenant, faith, apostasy.

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• Cannibalism in War — Forced cannibalism among starving armies, reported as bravery
• Circumcision — The Abrahamic-Mosaic covenant rite that Christ's atonement does away
• All things common — Nephite practice of shared goods
• Sacrament — Communal bread-and-wine rite among the risen Jesus's followers
• Lex Talionis — Mosaic proportional retribution, overturned in Christ's sermon
• Spirit Affliction — Reported affliction by devils or unclean spirits and their removal
• Signs, Wonders, and Miracles — Extraordinary events publicly witnessed, reported, and contested
• Siege Warfare — Blockade to force surrender rather than open battle
• Night Operations — Concealment, infiltration, and readiness after dark
• Factionalism and Dissent — Internal political division that weakens the people
• Throne Usurpation — Seizing a kingdom by intrigue, murder, and political fraud
• Gesture and token — Bodily acts that carry meaning between persons
• Rending garments as token — Cloth torn as a covenant sign, with the tearing itself stating the terms
• Conquest and Subjugation — Warfare represented as reducing a people to bondage and installing rule
• Military Preparation — Readiness through intelligence, fortification, arms, and provisions
• Defensive Warfare — Nephite claims about defense, restraint, and refusal of vengeance
• Conferral by touch — The hand laid on a person, by which Spirit or authority passes
• Order of the Nehors — Religious affiliation associated with Amalekite and Amulonite synagogues
• Raising by the hand — Lifting a bowed person from the ground, glossed as a token of peace
• Lamanite Great Spirit — Lamoni's inherited religious language for a supreme divine being
• Captivity — Loss of liberty, confinement, and treatment of captured enemies
• Warfare — Military conflicts in Nephite history
• Weights and Measures — Nephite system of weights and measures
• Legal Profession — Lawyers and judges who administer law in public trials
• Hospitality and Hosting — Receiving guests into a household and providing food or shelter
• Fasting — Devotional abstinence joined with prayer, mourning, and spiritual power
• Revelation and Prophecy — Divine truth made known by the Spirit and declared to others
• Military Command — Appointed captains and commanders directing armies
• Sorcery and Witchcraft — A named forbidden occult practice, distinct from idolatry
• Wealth and Poverty — Material abundance, deprivation, and their moral consequences
• Civic Administration — Appointed judges, governors, and officers exercising public authority
• Political Liberty — Rights, privileges, and freedom from political bondage
• Reign of the Judges — Nephite government by elected judges under law
• Judgment Seat — Civic seat of Nephite judges
• Judicial Procedure — Trials, testimony, judgment, and legal process
• Crime and punishment — Legal accountability for acts, with belief protected from civil penalty
• Monarchy and Kingship — Rule by a king and the moral hazards of concentrated power
• Equality — Equal standing and mutual regard within a community
• Church Discipline — Church correction and removal of unrepentant members
• Trade and Commerce — Buying, selling, and traffic for gain
• Layered Territorial Kingship — Local kings, lands, and the authority of a king over a wider territory
• Wound Care — Binding, dressing, and tending bodily injuries
• Worship — Devotion to the true and living God in heart and assembly
• Preaching and Teaching — Authorized proclamation and instruction in the word of God
• Ordination — Setting apart priests and teachers for community ministry
• Church of God — Covenanted community of the baptized, organized for worship and care
• Clapping and clasping hands — Hands brought together in acclamation and in joy
• Mourning and Comfort — Shared grief, lamentation, and covenantal consolation
• Capital punishment — Execution as a legal and punitive measure
• Ordinances — Prescribed sacred performances that remember and point to God
• Seership — A recognized office for seeing and interpreting hidden records
• Treaties — Negotiated settlements governing land, war, and coexistence
• Bondage and Slavery — Political subjection, forced labor, and divine deliverance
• Bowing and obeisance — Lowering the body before a king or before God
• Voice of the people — Nephite political decision-making process
• Exploration — Parties searching for a destination through unfamiliar wilderness
• Reckoning of Time — Nephite dating from Lehi's departure, the judges, and Christ's sign
• Lending and Borrowing — Neighborly loans, repayment, and generosity
• Angelic Visitations — Reported angelic appearances and messages with public consequences
• Taxation and Tribute — Levies imposed by rulers and conquering powers
• Labor — Productive work, self-support, and exploited toil
• Public Proclamation — Official messages gathered, spoken, written, and sent among a people
• Royal Accession — Public installation and transfer of a king's authority
• Tradition of the Fathers — Inherited transmission of belief and identity across generations
• Translation — Rendering an ancient record through a seer's divine gift
• Migration and Colonization — A people relocating under a leader to found or reoccupy a settlement
• Animal Husbandry — Tending flocks, herds, and useful domestic animals
• Kneeling in prayer — The bodily posture of petition, held apart from prayer as an act
• Prayer — Calling upon God in faith, need, and continual devotion
• Law of Moses — Israelite religious observance maintained by early Nephite communities
• Chastity and Virtue — Sexual integrity treated as precious before God
• Sexual Transgression — Adultery, lust, and sexual exploitation condemned in scripture
• Alms — Charitable giving and its principles
• Ridding the garments — The prophetic idiom of standing clear of a people's blood
• Plural Marriage and Concubinage — The practice of taking multiple wives or concubines
• Baptism — Water ordinance witnessing repentance and covenant
• Secret combinations — Oath-bound conspiracies pursuing power, gain, and murder
• Feasts — Public and household meals of celebration, display, or excess
• Shaking the garments — Garments shaken before a congregation as a witness of clean hands
• Sackcloth and ashes — Mourning and repentance practice
• Divorce — Dissolution of marriage and Christ’s teaching on its moral consequences
• Holy Order of God — Ordained high-priest order that taught and organized the church
• Priests and Teachers — Community religious offices among Nephites and converted Lamanites
• Government Principles — Nephite principles of governance and law
• Law, civil — Nephite legal systems and governance
• Contention — Angry division and conflict among people
• Harvest and Increase — Agricultural yield, abundance, and seasonal gathering
• Cultivation and Sowing — Tilling land, planting seed, and tending fields
• Dancing and Merrymaking — Social dancing, singing, and celebration in narrative settings
• Stretching forth the hand — The arm extended toward heaven, toward persons, or toward an object
• Forbidden touch — The person or object that may not be laid hands on
• Hunting and Foraging — Wilderness subsistence by hunted game and wild food
• Persecute, persecution — Social pattern of oppression and conflict
• Burial of the Dead — Communal practice of interring or disposing of the slain and the dead
• Craftsmanship — Skilled artisanal labor as a valued social role
• Naming Customs — Naming lands, cities, and children after ancestors and first possessors
• Agriculture — Agricultural practices in Nephite society
• Marriage — Covenant family union and raising a righteous posterity
• Sacrifice and Offerings — Mosaic offerings of firstlings, later done away by Christ
• Oaths — Oaths in Nephite and Jaredite society
• Property and Ownership — Possession, loss, and defense of material goods and land
• Genealogical Record-Keeping — Preserving commanded family descent across generations
• Elder-Son Precedence — The expectation that the eldest leads, contested by appointment
• Visions and Dreams — Experiences recorded, interpreted, disputed, and acted upon
• Reformed Egyptian — The Nephites' altered script used for their engraved records
• Language — Inherited speech and writing preserved across generations
• Learning — Education, literacy, and cultivated understanding
• Family — Family roles in Nephite society