Zamzummim
(Deuteronomy 2:20) only, the Ammonite name for the people who by others were called Rephaim. They are described as having originally been a powerful and numerous nation of giants. From a slight similarity between the two names, and from the mention of the Emim in connection with each, it is conjectured that the Zamzummim are identical with the Zuzim.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia on Zamzummim
Zamzummim zam-zum'-im (zam-zummim): A race of giants who inhabited the region East of the Jordan afterward occupied by the Ammonites who displaced them. They are identified with the Rephaim (De 2:20). They may be the same as the Zuzim mentioned in connection with the Rephaim in Ge 14:5. ⇒See a list of verses on ZAMZUMMIMS in the Bible. See REPHAIM. ⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible on Zamzummim
In the arclia?ological notice, Dt 2-""'-^, said (v.-") to have been the name given by the Ammonites to the ' Rephaim,' wiio once in- habited their land, but had afterwards been ex- pelled by them, — a people ' great and many and tall, like the Anakim' (comp. the similar note in yy 10. 11 respecting the 'Emini,' the prehistoric occupants of the territory possessed afterwards by Moal), and in v.'^ resjiecting the yorites, the original occupants of Edom). The Rephaim were a people, reputed to have been of giant stature, who left remains or memories of themselves in dilleriiit parts of Palestine, —cf. e.g. the 'Vale of licphaira' Jos 15' al. S.W. of Jerus., and the description of Og, king of Bashan, as ' of the remnant of the Rephaim,' also 2 S 21'«- '»• »■ -- RV ; and the Ammonites called those Rephaim who, in prehistoric times, had inhabited their own terntorv by the name 'Zamzummim.' This is all that is Icnown about them. As regards the name, zamzamah in Arab, is a distnnt and confused .<!ound, and ziztm is the loxo hvin of the Jinn heard in the desert at night (Lane, 1248 f.), whence…
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