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Rephaim רְפָאִים
People from Repha(?). The Rephaim, also known as Zamzummin, were a race of giants who inhabited parts of Canaan before the Israelite conquest.
Also called Rephaites, Zamzummim, Zamzummites.
Where Rephaim appears
Deuteronomy (4), Joshua (3), Genesis (2)
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,
- Genesis 15:20 — And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
- Deuteronomy 2:11 — Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
- Deuteronomy 2:20 — (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
- Deuteronomy 3:11 — For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
- Deuteronomy 3:13 — And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
- Joshua 12:4 — And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
- Joshua 13:12 — All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
- Joshua 17:15 — And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Verse text: King James Version.