In the fourteenth year Kedorla`omer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Refa'im in `Ashterot-Karnayim, and the Zuzim in Cham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiryatayim,
Deuteronomy 2:11 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) these also are accounted Refa'im, as the `Anakim; but the Mo`avim call them Emim. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition These also are known as Rephaim [of giant stature], as are the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim. American Standard Version (1901) these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. Common English Bible Most people thought the Emim were Rephaim, like the Anakim were. But the Moabites called them “Emim.” Catholic Public Domain Version 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 They were esteemed as giants, and were like the sons of the Enacims. But the Moabites call them Emims. |
In the fourteenth year Kedorla`omer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Refa'im in `Ashterot-Karnayim, and the Zuzim in Cham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiryatayim,
The Nefilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
and Yishbi-Benov, who was of the sons of the Rafa, the weight of whose spear was three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain David.
They went up by the South, and came to Chevron; and Achiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of `Anak, were there. (Now Chevron was built seven years before Tzo`an in Egypt.)
However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, [and] very great: and moreover we saw the children of `Anak there.
There we saw the Nefilim, the sons of `Anak, who come of the Nefilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the `Anakim there.
(That also is accounted a land of Refa'im: Refa'im lived therein before; but the `Ammonim call them Zamzummim,
(For only `Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Refa'im; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; isn't it in Rabbah of the children of `Ammon? nine cubits was the length of it, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.)
a people great and tall, the sons of the `Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the sons of `Anak?