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Nahom. wretched, naked, wounded and starved condition. After a season of mutual joy, thanksgiving and congratulation, the elders again separated to renew their labors in the ministry, but to what particular land Muloki went, or among whom he sojourned we have no information.  NAHOM. A place on the line of travel of Lehi and his company through the Arabian desert. Here Ishmael died and was buried. (I Nephi, 16:34.)   NAPHTALI, LAND OF. The country inhabited by the tribe of Naphtali, in Canaan, afterwards known as Galilee. It is mentioned but once in the Book of Mormon, in a quotation from the ninth chapter of Isaiah. (II Nephi, 19:1.)   NAZARETH. The city were Jesus spent his childhood. It was shown Nephi in his vision of the coming and birth of our Savior. (I Nephi, 11:13.) It is nowhere else mentioned by name in the Book of Mormon.   NESS. A grain, kind unknown, mentioned, in connection with wheat, barley, and sheum, as being planted by the Nephites on the land of Lehi-Nephi. (Mosiah, 9:9.) <section end="Ness" /> <section begin="Ness" /><section end="Ness" /> <section begin="Nehor" />NEHOR. Could our readers have taken a glimpse at the fair capital of the Nephites in the first year of the Judges (B. C. 91), they might have noticed in its principal street a portly, handsome man, manifesting in his carriage the evidences of great bodily strength, combined with vanity, self-sufficiency and subtlety. They might have observed that his raiment was made of the finest fabrics that the looms of Zarahemla could produce, lavishly embroidered and ornamented with the labors of the cunning workman in silk, in feathers and the precious metals, while at his side hung a richly decorated sword. This man was no king, no governor, no general of the armies of Israel; he was simply Nehor, the successful <section end="Nehor" />