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Shiblon is the name of a Book of Mormon character. He was the second son of Alma the Younger, who was the first chief judge. In the 17th year of the reign of the judges, or 74 BC, he went with his younger brother Corianton and his father Alma on a mission to the apostate Zoramites, while his older brother Helaman stayed behind. The year after, Alma gave special instruction to Shiblon, found in Alma 38.

When the 36th year of the judges (56 BC) came, Shiblon inherited the records and other sacred things from Helaman, his brother. He kept them for three years, and then realized he would soon die. And as he could not deliver them to Corianton, who had gone north in a ship, he gave them to Helaman II, the son of his brother Helaman. And then, in the 39th year, or 53 BC, Shiblon died.

The name is apparently a variant of Shiblom. LDS scholar Hugh Nibley pointed out both names are probably related to the Arabic word shibl, "lion cub." His student Benjamin Urrutia went on to make the connection with the "Jaguar Cub" imagery of the Olmec people.

Preceded by Helaman

Nephite record keeper the 36th-39th years of the reign of the judges, or 56-53 BC

Succeeded by Helaman II

• Shiblon is also the name of a silver Nephite weight, equal to half a senine of gold, or senum of silver. It therefore brought half a measure of barley in the Nephite world.
• Metal Weights From the Book of Mormon: Alma 11

[The numerals in brackets are chapters in the Alma of the Book of Mormon]

Exchange Rates for GOLD Pieces:

 [7,8]        Senine = 2 seon = measure-barley = measure-any-grain
 [8,9]        Seon    = 1/2 senine = 2 shum 
 [10]         Limnah = 'all' 
 [19]         Antion= 3 shiblon

Exchange Rates for SILVER Pieces:

 [11]         amnor = 2 senums
 [12]         ezrom = 4 senums
 [13]         onti = 'all' 

Exchange Rates:

  [7]         senum = senine = measure-barley = measure-any-grain
  [8]         seon = 2 senine
  [9]         shum = 2 seon
  [16,17]     shiblum = 2 leah = 1/2 shiblon

Equivalency :

  The Book of Mormon shows that 1 shiblon = 1/3 shiblon:  
  [15, 6,19]  1 shiblon = ½ senum = ½ measure-barley = 2 shiblum = 1/3 shiblon
     

• External link [1] Frank Zindler's valuation of Book of Mormon coins

• External link [2] FAIR's rebuttal