In Alma and Amulek's preaching to the people in Ammonihah, "there was one among them whose name was Zeezrom" who was "the foremost to accuse them." He was a lawyer whose object was "to get gain; and they got gain according to their employ" (Alma 10:30-32). With respect to the name Zeezrom, Gordon Thomasson hypothesizes that in order to facilitate editorial condensation of the Nephite records, Mormon used a process of metonymic naming wherein he substituted a symbolically "loaded" name for the actual personal name of a given individual.
Metonymy or metonymic naming involves "naming by association," a metaphoric process in this case of linking a concept and a person together in such a way as to tell us more about the person by means of what we already know about the former.
It is intriguing that almost immediately after Zeezrom enters into the Nephite record, we find a seeming digression from the topic of the text in a complex discussion of Nephite weights and units of measure and equivalents. Conspicuous among the names of the units of value given is that of an ezrom (Alma 11:6, 12). It is a quantity of silver. Then immediately after the discussion of money we find the topic returning to the man who was called Zeezrom. This name appears to be a compound of the word Ze, which we can translate "This is an" as a prefix, and the word ezrom. Zeezrom proceeds to offer 10.5 ezrom of silver to Alma and Amulek if they would deny their testimonies. Because Zeezrom was a lawyer of dubious repute, one who today might be called a "bag-man" or a "fixer," that is, one who offers bribes of money, apparently Mormon gave him the name Zeezrom after-the-fact (or metonymically) in order to fit his lifestyle. Besides linking him with his actions, the name links him into a typological complex with those who would sell their signs and tokens for money. It should be noted that Judas betrayed or sold Christ for thirty pieces of silver. [Gordon C. Thomasson, "What's in a Name? Book of Mormon Language, Names, and [Metonymic] Naming," in Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, Volume 3, Number 1 (Spring 1994), pp. 8, 10, 15-16]