Mentioned by Mormon in a letter to his son Moroni (Moroni 9:2). It would appear that he was a commander in Mormon’s army. \u00a0He was a Nephite soldier that was one of several ‘choice men’ to be slain by the Lamanites.<\/p>\n
Etymology<\/strong> Mentioned by Mormon in a letter to his son Moroni (Moroni 9:2). It would appear that he was a commander in Mormon’s army. \u00a0He was a Nephite soldier that was one of several ‘choice men’ to be slain by the Lamanites. Etymology Possibly derived from\u00a0HEBREW\u00a0\u02be\u0101mar\u00a0“to speak.”\u00a0If so, it may be a short-form (hypocoristicon) with the common Semitic ending on PNs and GNs\u00a0-\u014dn\u00a0for “Word (of God); (God) has spoken, commanded”. Cf. biblical\u00a0HEBREW\u00a0\u02beimr\u00f4\u00a0“his command” (Job 20:29), and possibly forming the\u00a0HEBREW\u00a0PNs Omri and Imri (1 Chronicles 9:4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/layne.eqlik.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/layne.eqlik.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/layne.eqlik.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layne.eqlik.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layne.eqlik.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/layne.eqlik.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layne.eqlik.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/layne.eqlik.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layne.eqlik.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layne.eqlik.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/b>Possibly derived from\u00a0HEBREW<\/small>\u00a0\u02be\u0101mar<\/i>\u00a0“to speak.”\u00a0If so, it may be a short-form (hypocoristicon) with the common Semitic ending on PNs and GNs\u00a0-\u014dn<\/i>\u00a0for “Word (of God); (God) has spoken, commanded”. Cf. biblical\u00a0HEBREW<\/small>\u00a0\u02beimr\u00f4<\/i>\u00a0“his command” (Job 20:29), and possibly forming the\u00a0HEBREW<\/small>\u00a0PNs Omri and Imri (1 Chronicles 9:4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"