Deuteronomy 2:11 “Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moab…”

Deuteronomy 2:11

Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

They also were taken for gyants as the Anakims: whom the Moabites call Emims.

Darby Translation

They also are reckoned as giants like the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.

Young's Literal Translation

Rephaim they are reckoned, they also, as the Anakim; and the Moabites call them Emim.

Bible in Basic English

They are numbered among the Rephaim, like the Anakim; but are named Emim by the Moabites.

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Cross references

“as the Anakims”

Deuteronomy 1:28 Deuteronomy 9:2 Numbers 13:22 Numbers 13:28 Numbers 13:33

Deuteronomy 1:28 · BSB

Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”

Deuteronomy 9:2 · BSB

The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”

Numbers 13:22 · BSB

They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

Numbers 13:28 · BSB

Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.

Numbers 13:33 · BSB

We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”

Also

Genesis 14:5

Genesis 14:5 · BSB

In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.

12The Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land that the LORD gave them as their possession.)

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