When Zeniff, the Nephite ruler, lists the crops his people cultivate, he names corn, wheat, barley, and sheum, a term with which most English-speaking people are unfamiliar. In the last forty years, she’um has been identified as the most important grain among the Akkadians (or Babylonians) of Mesopotamia. Interestingly, in Akkadian the word she’um means barley, while in Old Assyrian it signifies wheat. Since these two specific grains are already listed in Mosiah 9:9, it is probable that the Jaredites or Nephites gave another cultivable plant the name she’um. (See Echoes, 288).