Rephaim

The Rephaim, also known as Zamzummin, were a race of giants who inhabited parts of Canaan before the Israelite conquest.
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Summary

People from Repha(?), first mentioned at Genesis 14:5; referred to as Rephaim (רְפָאִים) or Zamzummin (זַמְזֻמִּים).

Glossary entries

Rephaim Zamzummim, Zamzummites Rephaites

Alternative names

Mentions

Includes 1 verse that refer to Rephaim without naming them, as “he”, “she”, or the subject of a verb.

  1. Genesis 14:5רְפָאִים · Rephaim
    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,
  2. Genesis 15:20רְפָאִים · Rephaim
    Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
  3. Deuteronomy 2:11רְפָאִים · Rephaim
    Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.
  4. Deuteronomy 2:20רְפָאִים · Rephaim; זַמְזֻמִּים · Zamzummin
    (That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.
  5. Deuteronomy 2:21Referred to, not named
    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,
  6. Deuteronomy 3:11רְפָאִים · Rephaim
    (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.)
  7. Deuteronomy 3:13רְפָאִים · Rephaim
    To the half-tribe of Manasseh I gave the rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og. (The entire region of Argob, the whole territory of Bashan, used to be called the land of the Rephaim.)
  8. Joshua 12:4רְפָאִים · Rephaim
    And Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.
  9. Joshua 13:12רְפָאִים · Rephaim
    …the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who had reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei and had remained as a remnant of the Rephaim. Moses had struck them down and dispossessed them,
  10. Joshua 17:15רְפָאִים · Rephaim
    Joshua answered them, “If you have so many people that the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go to the forest and clear for yourself an area in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim.”