A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Bountiful, Land of

by George Reynolds

BOUNTIFUL, LAND OF, (in Arabia). This must not be confounded with the Bountiful in the northern part of South America, where the Savior appeared and taught the Nephites. It was a portion of Arabia Felix, or Arabia the happy, so called in contradistinction to Arabia the stony, and Arabia the desert, on account of its abundant productiveness and great fertility. It was in this blessed region, on the shore of the Arabian sea, that Nephi built the ship that carried Lehi's colony to the promised land. To the sea itself they gave the name of Irreantum, which word means many waters.