Deuteronomy 2:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ Like the Anakim, they are usually reckoned as Rephaim, though the Moabites call them Emim.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ These also are known as Rephaim [of giant stature], as are the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.

Common English Bible

¹¹ Most people thought the Emim were Rephaim, like the Anakim were. But the Moabites called them “Emim.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ They were considered to be like giants, and they were like the sons of the Anakim. And, indeed, the Moabites call them: the Emim.

Deuteronomy 2:11 Cross References

Deuteronomy 9:2

a strong and tall people, the offspring of the Anakim, whom you know. You have heard it said, ‘Who can stand up to the Anakim?’

Deuteronomy 1:28

Where are we headed? Our kindred have made our hearts melt by reporting, “The people are stronger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified up to heaven! We actually saw there the offspring of the Anakim!” ’

Numbers 13:33

There we saw the Nephilim (the Anakites come from the Nephilim), and to ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

Numbers 13:28

Yet the people who live in the land are strong, and the towns are fortified and very large, and besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

Numbers 13:22

They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron, and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the Anakites, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Genesis 14:5

In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and subdued the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

Deuteronomy 2:20

(It also is usually reckoned as a land of Rephaim. Rephaim formerly inhabited it, though the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

Deuteronomy 3:11

(Now only King Og of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. In fact, his bed, an iron bed, can still be seen in Rabbah of the Ammonites. By the common cubit it is nine cubits long and four cubits wide.)

Genesis 6:4

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown.

2 Samuel 21:16

Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze and who was fitted out with new weapons, said he would kill David.