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Zeram. great were the losses on both sides that the dead were not counted. After this fearful battle, we read no more of Zerahemnah.  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.   ZERIN, MOUNT. A mountain of which we know nothing except what is contained in the following passage: For the brother of Jared said unto the mountain Zerin, remove, and it was removed. (Ether, 12:30.)   ZIFF. A metal, kind unknown, used by the artificers of king Noah in the land of Lehi-Nephi (Mosiah, 11:3, 8), The word ziff means, in the Hebrew, brightness—metallic brightness. (The word is used in Daniel, 2:31, also in Isaiah, 30:22, where it means overlaying metal.)   ZION. This word occurs forty-four times in the Book of Mormon; nearly always in quotations from Isaiah, or in references thereto. <section end="Zion" /> <section begin="Zion" /><section end="Zion" /> <section begin="Zoram" />ZORAM. The servant of Laban (B. C. 600), afterwards the friend of Nephi. When Nephi had slain Laban near his house at Jerusalem, he went into the dead man's residence, and assuming the voice of Laban commanded Zoram, who had the keys of the treasury, to bring the records he needed. It being night, Zoram was deceived, and quickly obeyed. Then Nephi commanded Zoram to follow him with the records to his brethren. This Zoram did, supposing that the brethren to whom Nephi alluded, were the elders of the Jews. <section end="Zoram" />