Zoram / Zorum Variants

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Variant Spellings of ZORAM

- 1 Nephi 4:35a

OPA: Zoram

- 1 Nephi 4:35b

O: Zorum

P: Zoram/Zorum

- 1 Nephi 4:37

O: Zorum

P: Zoram/Zorum

Discussion: Scribe 3 first spelled this name as Zoram, but for the next two times in O he spelled it as Zorum. In P, Cowdery's spellings can be read as either Zoram or Zorum (with a u or a).

Summary: Skousen accepts Zoram, the first spelling

Other occurrences not discussed in ATV: 1 Nephi 4:35a; 16:7; 2 Nephi 1:30; 5:6; Alma 16:5 (2x), 7; 30:59; 31:1; 54:23

Source: ATV 1:117, 3:1507