Emim (Hastings' Dictionary)

The name is tliat of a body of Rephaiin or giant peojile, living E. of the Jordan, in the S. half of the territory between Bashan and Seir (Dt a'"- ")• The name Bignihes ' formidable ones,' and we are told that it was given them by the Moabites. The Emim were in this region in Abraham's time, and were attacked by the four invading kings during their march S. (Gn 14"). They are said to have been ' a jjeople great and numerous, and tall as the Anakim.'

We are not told what became of them, but the natural Buggestions of the narrative are to the effect that the Moabites destroyed and superseded them. See Giant. W. J. Beecher. EMINENT is now only metaphorical, 'exalted,' but in AV it is always literal : an ' eminent place,' Ezk 16'-"-' (33, RVm 'a vaulted chamber,' see Davidson on Ezk 16'"), 2 Es 15" {locus e?ntnens) ; 'an high mountain and eminent,' Ezk 17" (7'7i?) Cf . Elyot, The Governour, i.

4, ' he made not only herbes to gamisshe the erthe, but also trees of a more eminent stature than herbes.' Eminence occurs in AV only in the compound ' pre-eminence' (Ec 3", Sir SS**, 1 Mac 11^, Col l^, 3 Jn "). RV gives ' eminency ' in Ezk 7" ' neither shall there be eminency among them ' (en? tiyK% AV ' wailing for them,' so RVm), using the word in its modern sense, and following the Arab, for the translation. See Davidson, ad loe. J. HASTINGS.