Deuteronomy 2 · Verse 11

Deuteronomy 2:11

Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
Deuteronomy 2:11, King James Version

Deuteronomy 2:11 in other translations

BSBLike the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.
WEBThese also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
ASVthese also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
YLTRephaim they are reckoned, they also, as the Anakim; and the Moabites call them Emim.
DARBYThey also are reckoned as giants like the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
BBEThey are numbered among the Rephaim, like the Anakim; but are named Emim by the Moabites.
WebsterWho also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.

What does Deuteronomy 2:11 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 11 Which also were accounted giants - This is not a fortunate version. The word is not giants, but רפאים Rephaim, the name of a people. It appears that the Emim, the Anakim, and the Rephaim, were probably the same people, called by different names in the different countries where they dwelt; for they appear originally to have been a kind of wandering free-booters, who lived by plunder. (See on Deu 2:10 (note)). It must be granted, however, that there were several men of this race of extraordinary stature. And hence all gigantic men have been called Rephaim. (See on Gen 6:4 (note), and Gen 14:5 (note)). But we well know that fear and public report have often added whole cubits to men's height. It was under this influence that the spies acted, when they brought the disheartening report mentioned Num 13:33.

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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 2:11 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.

רְפָאִ֛יםre.fa.'ImRephaitesH7497
יֵחָשְׁב֥וּye.cha.she.Vuthey were regardedH2803
אַף\־'af-alsoH637
הֵ֖םhemtheyH1992
כָּעֲנָקִ֑יםka.'a.na.Kimlike the AnakitesH6062
וְהַמֹּ֣אָבִ֔יםve.ha.Mo.'a.Vimand the MoabitesH4125
יִקְרְא֥וּyik.re.'Uthey calledH7121
לָהֶ֖םla.Hem<to> them
אֵמִֽים\׃'e.MimEmitesH368

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

Cross references for Deuteronomy 2:11

  • Deuteronomy 1:28

    Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.

  • Numbers 13:28

    Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

  • 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 9:2

    A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!

  • Numbers 13:33

    And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

  • 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
as the Anakims.
1:28; 9:2; Nu 13:22,28,33

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

Context

  • 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.

  • Deuteronomy 2:12

    The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the Lord gave unto them.

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Deuteronomy 2:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Por gigantes eran ellos también contados, como los Anaceos; y los Moabitas los llaman Emimeos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		ils sont réputés, eux aussi, des géants, comme les Anakim, mais les Moabites les appellent Émim.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Auch sie werden für Riesen gehalten, wie die Enakim; und die Moabiter nennen sie Emim.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		quasi gigantes crederentur, et essent similes filiorum Enacim. Denique Moabitæ appellant eos Emim.