Deuteronomy 2 · Verse 10

Deuteronomy 2:10

The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
Deuteronomy 2:10, King James Version

Deuteronomy 2:10 in other translations

BSB(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.
WEB(The Emim lived there before, a great and numerous people, and tall as the Anakim.
ASV(The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
YLT‘The Emim formerly have dwelt in it, a people great, and numerous, and tall, as the Anakim;
DARBY(The Emim dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakim.
BBE(In the past the Emim were living there; a great people, equal in numbers to the Anakim and as tall;
Webster(The Emims dwelt in it in times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakims;

What does Deuteronomy 2:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 2:8-18

8-18. we passed ... through the way of the plain--the Arabah or great valley, from Elath ("trees") (the Ailah of the Greeks and Romans). The site of it is marked by extensive mounds of rubbish. Ezion-geber--now Akaba, both were within the territory of Edom; and after making a circuit of its southeastern boundary, the Israelites reached the border of Moab on the southeast of the Salt Sea. They had been forbidden by…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 The Emims dwelt therein - Calmet supposes that these people were destroyed in the war made against them by Chedorlaomer and his allies, Gen 14:5. Lot possessed their country after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. They are generally esteemed as giants; probably they were a hardy, fierce, and terrible people, who lived, like the wandering Arabs, on the plunder of others. This was sufficient to gain them the appellation of giants, or men of prodigious stature. See next verse, Deu 2:11 (note).

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 2:8-23

We have the origin of the Moabites, Edomites, and Ammonites. Moses also gives an instance older than any of these; the Caphtorims drove the Avims out of their country. These revolutions show what uncertain things wordly possessions are. It was so of old, and ever will be so. Families decline, and from them estates are transferred to families that increase; so little continuance is there in these things. This is…

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Deuteronomy 2:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הָאֵמִ֥יםha.'e.Mimthe EmitesH368
לְפָנִ֖יםle.fa.Nim<to> beforeH6440
יָ֣שְׁבוּYa.she.vuthey dweltH3427
בָ֑הּVahin it
עַ֣ם'ama peopleH5971
גָּד֥וֹלga.DolgreatH1419
וְרַ֛בve.Ravand numerousH7227
וָרָ֖םva.Ramand loftyH7311
כָּעֲנָקִֽים\׃ka.'a.na.Kimlike the AnakitesH6062

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Deuteronomy 2:10

  • Genesis 14:5

    And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

  • Deuteronomy 2:11

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

  • Numbers 13:22

    And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
All the nations here mentioned appear to have been the posterity of Ham, who lay under the prophetical curse of Noah, which was thus executed upon this part of them by the Moabites and Edomites.
11; Ge 14:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Deuteronomy 2:9

    And the Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.

  • Deuteronomy 2:10

    The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;

  • Deuteronomy 2:11

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

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Deuteronomy 2:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		(Los Emimeos habitaron en ella antes, pueblo grande, y numeroso, y alto como gigantes:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		(Les Émim y habitaient auparavant, un peuple grand et nombreux et de haute stature comme les Anakim;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Die Emim wohnten vordem darin, ein großes und zahlreiches und hohes Volk, wie die Enakim.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Emim primi fuerunt habitatores ejus, populus magnus, et validus, et tam excelsus ut de Enacim stirpe,