Dictionary of the Book of Mormon, p. 296

 OGATH

            A place in North America not far from the hill Ramah (Cumorah), and consequently in the modern State of New York (Ether 15:10). Here Shiz, for four years, gathered those of the Jaredites, men, women, and children, who sympathized with his cause, preparatory to the final contest which ended in the utter destruction of the Jaredite race.

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 OMER

            A righteous, but unfortunate king of the early Jaredites. He was the son of Shule, and the father of a prince named Jared. Jared rebelled against his father and by his flatteries led away the people of half the kingdom. He then gave battle to his father and took him prisoner, holding him in servitude half his days. While thus in bondage Omer begat several children, among whom were two sons, named Esrom and Coriantumr. When these young men grew to manhood they espoused the cause of their father, raised an army, attacked the forces of Jared by night, and utterly routed them. Jared obtained his life by renouncing his rights to the throne, and Omer was reinstated in the kingly authority. Jared, greatly chagrined at the loss of the royal power, entered into secret combination with Akish, a friend of Omer, to assassinate the king and restore Jared to the throne. Their attempt was partially successful. Omer was driven from the throne, but, being warned by the Lord in a dream, he fled, with the faithful portion of his family, to the far off North Atlantic seaboard, passing in his journey the hill Shim, where the Nephite records were in after ages, hid, and the hill Cumorah. From the direction of his journey we are justified in believing that the land Ablom, where he established himself, was on the New England coast. From time to time, others joined Omer, while the Jaredite people were rent by internecine wars, which ended in their almost entire destruction. Then Omer returned with his followers and reigned over the remnant of a once numerous people. He lived to be exceedingly old, and two years before his death he anointed his son Emer to reign in his stead. His days were many and full of sorrow.

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 OMNER

            One of the sons, apparently the third, of King Mosiah II. With his brothers, in early life, he appears to have been an unbeliever in the gospel, and an enemy to the people of God's church; with them he was brought to an understanding of his position by the appearance of an angel. He then, with the rest who witnessed this heavenly visitation, went abroad among the Nephites, endeavoring, by his diligence, zeal and self-abnegation, to atone for the wrongs he had beforetime committed. In B. C. 91, he formed one of the party who went to the land of Nephi to convert the Lamanites, and remained in that mission until its close, suffered in all its privations and persecutions and rejoiced abundantly in its triumphs. Of his individual labors in that mission little is said, though the inference may be drawn that he spent a considerable portion of the time with and assisted his brother Aaron in his labors and ministrations. He returned with his fellow missionaries to Zarahemla in B. C. 78. In later years (B. C. 75), he accompanied Alma and others to the land of Antionum, to minister among the apostate Zoramites.

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 OMNER, CITY OF

            A city of the Nephites on the east borders by the sea shore, in other words, a seaport town on the South Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean Sea. It was probably named after Omner, the son of Mosiah, and, if so, we are justified, from the custom of the Nephites, in believing that he was its founder. It fell into the hands of the Lamanites in B. C. 67 (Alma 51:26), and undoubtedly again in B. C. 35, (or about that time), though it is not then mentioned by name.

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 OMNI

            A Nephite prophet, son of Jarom, and a descendant of Jacob, the younger brother of Nephi. He lived in the land of Nephi, and was the custodian of the plates of Nephi from the 239th to the 283rd year of the Nephite annals, or 44 years. He characterizes himself as a wicked man, who, had not kept the commandments and statutes of the Lord as he ought to have done, but had been principally engaged in defending his people from the constantly recurring onslaught of the Lamanites. The history of his times he sums up in one short sentence: "And it came to pass that 276 years had passed away [from the time Lehi left Jerusalem] and we had many seasons of peace and we had many seasons of serious war and bloodshed." Having kept the plates according to the commandments of his fathers, he conferred them upon his son Amaron. (B. C. 318.)

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 ONIDAH, HILL

            A hill in the land of Antionum, from which Alma, the younger, preached to the Zor-amites (B. C. 75). (Alma 32:4.)

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 ONIDAH, PLACE

            The gathering place of the dissatisfied Lamanites, led by Lehonti, who refused to give heed to the king's proclamation of war against the Nephites (B. C. 73). Thither the malcontents were followed by Amalickiah and an army. By the latter's strategy and plotting he obtained an interview with Lehonti on Mount Antipas, and arranged to surrender his troops. Onidah is called "the place of arms," and may possibly be the hill Onidah in the land of Antionum, though we are of the opinion that it was not, it being within the borders of the Lamanite possessions. (Alma 47:5.)

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 ONIHAH, CITY OF

            One of the wicked cities swallowed up in the earth during the great cataclysms that, on this continent, bore record of the death of the Redeemer. When the convulsions were ended, a stagnant lake occupied the place where this city stood; it and all its sin-stained inhabitants were destroyed. This city is nowhere mentioned except in the statement of its destruction. (III. Nephi 9:7.)

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 OPHIR

            The Bible land of gold. Its locality has not been determined. Some suppose it to have been in India, some in Arabia, some in eastern Africa. It is named but once in the Book of Mormon (II. Nephi 23:12), in a quotation from the prophecies of Isaiah.

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 OREB, ROCK OF

            The spot, east of the Jordan, where thousands of the Midianites fell by the hands of the Ephraimites. It is mentioned but once in the Book of Mormon, in Nephi's quotations from the prophecies of Isaiah. (II. Nephi 20:26.)

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 ORIHAH

            The youngest of Jared's four sons and the first king of the Jaredites. When Jared and his brother had grown old and desired to know the wishes of their people before they went down to their graves, the people desired to be ruled by a king. This idea was displeasing to their leaders, but they ultimately consented to one being chosen. All the sons of Jared and of his brother refused this dignity, until Orihah was reached and he accepted the kingly honor. He reigned in righteousness, executing judgment in justice, walking humbly before Heaven, and instructing his subjects in the ways of the Lord. He lived to a very great age, was the father of thirty-one children, twenty-three of whom were sons, and when he died he was succeeded on the throne by his son Kib. The Jaredites prospered and multiplied greatly under his wise and beneficent reign.

(Dictionary of the Book of Mormon, p. 299 - 300)