Deuteronomy 2:20
New International Version
(That too was considered a land of the Rephaites, who used to live there; but the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.

New Living Translation
(That area was once considered the land of the Rephaites, who had lived there, though the Ammonites call them Zamzummites.

English Standard Version
(It is also counted as a land of Rephaim. Rephaim formerly lived there—but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim—

Berean Standard Bible
(That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.

King James Bible
(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;

New King James Version
(That was also regarded as a land of giants; giants formerly dwelt there. But the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

New American Standard Bible
(It is also regarded as the land of the Rephaim, because the Rephaim previously lived in it, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummin,

NASB 1995
(It is also regarded as the land of the Rephaim, for Rephaim formerly lived in it, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummin,

NASB 1977
(It is also regarded as the land of the Rephaim, for Rephaim formerly lived in it, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummin,

Legacy Standard Bible
(It is also regarded as the land of the Rephaim, for Rephaim formerly lived in it, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummin,

Amplified Bible
(It is also regarded as the land of the Rephaim [of giant stature], for Rephaim used to live there, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummin,

Christian Standard Bible
This too used to be regarded as the land of the Rephaim. The Rephaim lived there previously, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummim,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This too used to be regarded as the land of the Rephaim. The Rephaim lived there previously, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummim,

American Standard Version
(That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
That was considered also a land of the giants; giants dwelt in it from the first, and the Ammonites call them Zamzemin;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
It shall be accounted a land of Raphain, for the Raphain dwelt there before, and the Ammanites call them Zochommin.

Contemporary English Version
Before the Ammonites conquered the land that the LORD had given them, some of the Rephaim used to live there, although the Ammonites called them Zamzummim.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It was accounted a land of giants: and giants formerly dwelt in it, whom the Ammonites call Zomzommims,

English Revised Version
(That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This land was thought of as the land of the Rephaim who used to live there, but the Ammonites called them Zamzummim.

Good News Translation
This territory is also known as the land of the Rephaim, the name of the people who used to live there; the Ammonites called them Zamzummim.

International Standard Version
"'(Indeed, it was considered Rephaim territory, since the Rephaim used to lived there. The Ammonites called them Zamzummites,

JPS Tanakh 1917
That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

Literal Standard Version
It is reckoned [as] a land of Rephaim, even it; Rephaim formerly dwelt in it, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

Majority Standard Bible
(That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.

New American Bible
(This also is considered a country of the Rephaim; formerly the Rephaim dwelt there. The Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

NET Bible
(That also is considered to be a land of the Rephaites. The Rephaites lived there originally; the Ammonites call them Zamzummites.

New Revised Standard Version
(It also is usually reckoned as a land of Rephaim. Rephaim formerly inhabited it, though the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

New Heart English Bible
(That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived in it before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

Webster's Bible Translation
(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt in it in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;

World English Bible
(That also is considered a land of Rephaim. Rephaim lived there in the past, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

Young's Literal Translation
'A land of Rephaim it is reckoned, even it; Rephaim dwelt in it formerly, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim;

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Context
Wanderings in the Wilderness
19But when you get close to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the Ammonites. I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their possession.” 20(That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites. 21They were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place,…

Cross References
Genesis 14:5
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,

Deuteronomy 2:11
Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.

Deuteronomy 2:21
They were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place,

Deuteronomy 3:11
(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)


Treasury of Scripture

(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelled therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;

Zamzummims

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,

Zuzims

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Deuteronomy 2
1. The story is continued, that they were not to meddle with the Edomites
9. nor with the Moabites
16. nor with the Ammonites
24. but Sihon the Amorite was subdued by them














(20) In old time.--See Genesis 14

Zamzummims = Zuzims (Genesis 14:5).

Verses 20-23. - Another parenthetical insertion, containing some ethnographical notices, intended, probably, to confirm the assertion that to the children of Ammon God had given their land for a possession. There is no sufficient reason for supposing that this paragraph is an interpolation, or gloss, inserted by some later writer. It lay as much in the way of Moses to introduce such ethnographical notices as in that of any writer of a later age. Verse 20. - Before the Ammonites, the laud was occupied by a gigantic race, called by them, Zamzummim (probably noisy ones, from זָמַם to hum, mutter; or, as the verb also signifies, to muse or meditate, perhaps moody ones; whether the same as the Zuzim of Genesis 14:5 - LXX., ἔθνη ἰσχυρά, as if from זוּז, to overflow, to abound - is uncertain). The colossal stone monuments, resembling what in Europe are known by the Celtic names of dolmen, menhir, and cromlech, still to be found in the land of Moab, are supposed to be the work of these aboriginal inhabitants of the country, the gigantic Emim and Zamzummim. This giant tribe the Lord had destroyed before the Ammonites, just as he had destroyed the Horim before the children of Esau in Seir.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
(That too
אַף־ (’ap̄-)
Conjunction
Strong's 637: Meaning accession, yea, adversatively though

was regarded
תֵּחָשֵׁ֖ב (tê·ḥā·šêḇ)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 2803: To think, account

as the land
אֶֽרֶץ־ (’e·reṣ-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 776: Earth, land

of the Rephaim,
רְפָאִ֥ים (rə·p̄ā·’îm)
Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 7497: Rephaim -- inhabitants of an area East of the Jordan

[who]
רְפָאִ֤ים (rə·p̄ā·’îm)
Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 7497: Rephaim -- inhabitants of an area East of the Jordan

used to live there,
יָֽשְׁבוּ־ (yā·šə·ḇū-)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

though the Ammonites
וְהָֽעַמֹּנִ֔ים (wə·hā·‘am·mō·nîm)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 5984: Ammonite -- descendants of Ammon

called
יִקְרְא֥וּ (yiq·rə·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7121: To call, proclaim, read

them Zamzummites.
זַמְזֻמִּֽים׃ (zam·zum·mîm)
Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 2157: Zamzummin -- another name for the Rephaim


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