Limher was one of four Nephite spies—with Zeram, Amnor, and Manti—whom Alma, then high priest and first chief judge, sent out to watch the camp of the Amlicites, the Nephite dissenters who followed Amlici against the people of Nephi around 87 B.C. (Alma 2:21-22).
The spies returned to the Nephite camp the next morning in great haste and fear, reporting that in the land of Minon, above Zarahemla, the Amlicites had joined a numerous host of Lamanites (Alma 2:21-22). The combined force was already upon the Nephites in that land, who were fleeing with their flocks, wives, and children toward the city, in danger of being overtaken and slain. On this report the people of Nephi left the valley of Gideon and moved toward the city of Zarahemla (Alma 2:23-25).