Sefer Mormon — ספר מורמון

Sefer Mormon — written in Hebrew as ספר מורמון — is simply the name of the Book of Mormon in Hebrew. If you have searched for the Hebrew title, or seen it on the cover of the Hebrew edition, this is the record you were looking for: the complete Book of Mormon, now readable in Hebrew, free online.

The Hebrew word סֵפֶר (sefer) means “book” — the same word used for the books of the Hebrew Bible, as in Sefer Bereshit (the Book of Genesis) or Sefer Yeshayahu (the Book of Isaiah). מורמון (Mormon) is the name carried directly from the record itself: Mormon was the prophet-historian who compiled and abridged the plates from which the book takes its name.

Put together, Sefer Mormon means “the Book of Mormon” — placing it, by its very title, in the same form as the sacred books of Israel.

Mormon's own name has drawn scholarly attention. Mormon researcher Hugh Nibley proposed that it derives from a Semitic root, mrm, attested in both ancient Hebrew and Arabic with a meaning close to "desirable" or "good," combined with a common Semitic name-ending, -on — the same ending found in names like Gideon. On this reading, the name Mormon would mean something like "the good one" or "the pleasant one." A very similar name has also been identified on an ancient Egyptian inscription that predates Lehi's era by centuries, though scholars are candid that its precise meaning in that context remains uncertain, and no single etymology for the name is settled beyond dispute. It is offered here as a genuinely interesting scholarly proposal, not as established fact.

Naming the record Sefer Mormon is more than a translation of convenience. It signals what the book claims to be: scripture in the line of the Hebrew scriptures, written by a branch of Israel, testifying of the same God and the same promised Messiah. A Hebrew reader encountering Sefer Mormon meets it, from the title onward, as a book that belongs on the shelf beside the sefarim they already know.

The name also connects the online edition, the printed edition, and this site under a single Hebrew identity — the record’s own name in its own language.

The complete text of Sefer Mormon is free to read, verse by verse, in Hebrew alongside the English.