Mormanity
Burying Nahom
Both Nahom in the Book of Mormon and Nihm in Southern Arabia match in the following interlocking details:
Both are places with a Semitic name based on the tri-consonantal root nhm.
Both pre-date 600 bce (implied in 1 Nephi 16:34).
Both are places for the burial of the dead (1 Nephi 16:34).
Both are at the southern end of a travel route moving south-southeast (1 Nephi 16:13–14, 33),which subsequently turns toward the east from that point (1 Nephi 17:1).
Both have “bountiful” lands,consistent in 12 particular details,approximately east of its location (1 Nephi 17:4).
While the presence of similar names in the Bible might be able to explain the first of these correlations,it simply cannot account for the all the ways the two places correspond. Daniel C. Peterson once commented,“nhm isn’t just a name. It is a name and a date and a place and a turn in the ancient trail and a specific relationship to another location.”
Suggesting that Joseph Smith simply got the name Nahom from the Bible is an insufficient explanation of the correlation.