Deuteronomy 2:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹¹ like the Anakim they are also known as Rephaim, but 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ They were esteemed as giants, and were like the sons of the Enacims. But the Moabites call them Emims.

Deuteronomy 2:11 Cross References

Genesis 14:5

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

Genesis 6:4

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

2 Samuel 21:16

And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was girded with a new sword, thought to kill David.

Numbers 13:22

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

Numbers 13:28

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

Numbers 13:33

And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim); and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

Deuteronomy 1:28

Whither are we going up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.” ’

Deuteronomy 2:20

(That also is known as a land of Rephaim; Rephaim formerly lived there, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

Deuteronomy 3:11

(For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit. )

Deuteronomy 9:2

a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’