Deuteronomy 2:11
What does Deuteronomy 2:11 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 2:11 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949They are numbered among the Rephaim, like the Anakim; but are named Emim by the Moabites.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Rephaim they are reckoned, they also, as the Anakim; and the Moabites call them Emim.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752They were esteemed as giants, and were like the sons of the Enacims. But the Moabites call them Emims.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890They also are reckoned as giants like the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
Context
v.10(The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
v.11This passage
v.12The Horites also dwelt in Seir aforetime, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which Jehovah gave unto them).
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 14:5
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
- Deuteronomy 9:2
a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the sons of Anak?
- Numbers 13:22
And they went up by the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
- Numbers 13:28
Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
- Deuteronomy 1:28
Whither are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
- Numbers 13:33
And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
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