Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Names/Zeezrom

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The Book of Mormon name "Zeezrom"

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, "A Nickname and a Slam Dunk: Notes on the Book of Mormon Names Zeezrom and Jershon"

Stephen D. Ricks,  Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, (2014)

When the Lamanites converted by the sons of Mosiah left their homeland to escape persecution, the Nephites allowed them to settle in the land of Jershon. The name, though not found in the Bible, has an authentic Hebrew origin, the root *YRŠ meaning “to inherit,” with the suffix -ôn that denotes place-names, and may have the meaning “place of inheritance.” Wilhelm Borée, in his important study Die alten Ortsnamen Palästinas (The Ancient Place Names of Palestine), cites fully 84 ancient Canaanite place names with the ending -ôn in biblical and extrabiblical sources (Egyptian and Mesopotamian writings, the El-Amarna letters, ostraca), including—to cite only a few examples—Ayyalon (Elon) (Joshua 19:42, 43), Eltekon (Joshua 15:58), Ashkelon (Judges 1:18), Gibeon (Joshua 9:3), Gibbethon (Joshua 19:44), and Dishon (Genesis 36:21).