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Wanderings in the Wilderness

Deuteronomy 2:10

In 11 translations

BSB
(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.
KJV
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
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:
LSV
The Emim have formerly dwelt in it, a people great, and numerous, and tall as the Anakim;
YLT
'The Emim formerly have dwelt in it, a people great, and numerous, and tall, as the Anakim;
DBY
(The Emim dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakim.
DRC
The Emims first were the inhabitants thereof, a people great, and strong, and so tall, that like the race of the Enacims,
GNV
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great and many, and tall, as the Anakims.
JPS
The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim;
LXXE
Formerly the Ommin dwelt in it, a great and numerous nation and powerful, like the Enakim.

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Original-language editions

WLC
הָאֵמִ֥ים לְפָנִ֖ים יָ֣שְׁבוּ בָ֑הּ עַ֣ם גָּד֥וֹל וְרַ֛ב וָרָ֖ם כָּעֲנָקִֽים׃
LXX-Br
Οἱ Ὀμμὶν πρότεροι ἐνεκάθηντο ἐπʼ αὐτῆς, ἔθνος μέγα καὶ πολὺ καὶ ἰσχύοντες, ὥσπερ οἱ Ἐνακίμ.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 14:5In 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 2:11Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.
  • Numbers 13:22They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

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