In Refuting Gabriel Hughes' Misinformed Arguments against the Book of Mormon, I discussed the name "Alma" in the Book of Mormon and demonstrated how modern scholarship reveals that it is indeed an ancient Semitic name for men. To add to the discussion, here is the entry for אלמא in David J.A. Clines, ed. The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, Volume 1: א (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press), 294:
