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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
An Ammonite name for a
race
of
Rephaim
or giants (
Deut. 2:20
20
(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims; (Deuteronomy 2:20)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
A
giant
race
who inhabited the district afterward held by the
Ammonites
: they were smitten early by
Chedorlaomer
. The meaning of the term is doubtful: Gesenius says the first name is perhaps from the
fertility
of their country, and the second signifies “noisy nations.” Fürst
judges
the first to signify “prominent ones, giants,” and the second “powerful, vigorous” (
Gen. 14:5
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, (Genesis 14:5)
;
Deut. 2:20
20
(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims; (Deuteronomy 2:20)
).
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.
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Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
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