John Tvedtnes notes that the words used by Nephi to record the naming of the river, " . . . he called the name of the river, Laman," (named the name) is an idiom not used in English but present in Arabic as well as Hebrew. [John A. Tvedtnes, "Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon: A Preliminary Survey," in BYU Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, Provo, p. 57]