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=== Theorized origin of the name === Commenting on the name of the angel Moroni, [[Grant H. Palmer]] speculates that Smith had read of the city [[Moroni, Comoros|Moroni]] on the island [[Comoros]] from either a map or tales of Captain [[William Kidd]], popular at the time.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Palmer |first1=Grant H. |date=2014 |title=Joseph Smith, Captain Kidd, Cumorah, and Moroni |url=http://www.jwha.website/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Journal_14-1.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=John Whitmer Historical Association Journal |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=50β57 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160716234415/http://www.jwha.website/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Journal_14-1.pdf |archive-date=July 16, 2016 |access-date=May 24, 2017}}</ref> According to Latter-day Saint scholar [[Hugh Nibley]], the use of "mor" in the Book of Mormon is an Egyptian word, and means "beloved, good, everything nice and desirable."<ref>See [[Hugh W. Nibley]], [http://publications.mi.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1137&index=15 Teachings of The Book of Mormon, Semester 3, Lecture 71] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311055148/http://publications.mi.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1137&index=15|date=March 11, 2016}}</ref>
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