"a cleansing"
The name Nephi is commonly a male name from the "" origin that means "a cleansing".
Nephi is a scriptural name rather than one drawn from the usual European stock. It is the name of the first prophet-narrator in the Book of Mormon, published in 1830, and that book is the source of the name's use as an English given name. The same word appears in 2 Maccabees 1:36 in the King James Apocrypha, where it is glossed as "a cleansing."
The pronunciation of Nephi is NEE-fye.
