A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Zeram

by George Reynolds

ZERAM. One of four Nephite officers, sent, with their men, by Alma, from the valley of Gideon to watch the movements of the defeated Amlicites, the evening after the great battle fought by them and the armies of the Nephites at the hill Amnihu, on the east side of the riyer Sidon. (B. C. 87). The next day they returned in great haste and reported that they h^d followed tfye Amlicites, until the latter had joined, in the land Minon, a numerous host of Lamanites, who were driving the Nephite inhabitants before them and marching rapidly towards the city of Zarahemla.