Emim אֵימִים

People from Em(?). The Emim were a tall and numerous people who inhabited the region of Moab before the Moabites.

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Also called Emites.

Where Emim appears

Deuteronomy (2), Genesis (1)

Key verses

• Genesis 14:5 first mention — 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,
• Deuteronomy 2:10 — The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
• Deuteronomy 2:11 — Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.

Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Verse text: King James Version.