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# אֵימִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H368

**Emims** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Emims [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/368/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵימִים: n.pr.m.pl. Emim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/368/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m.pl. Emim (terrors) ancient inhab. of Moab Gn 14:5 (הָאֵימִים); Dt 2:10 (הָאֵמ׳); v 11 (אֵמ׳).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Emites (3).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 2:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.11/#tree)

רְפָאִ֛ים יֵחָשְׁב֥וּ אַף־הֵ֖ם כָּעֲנָקִ֑ים וְהַמֹּ֣אָבִ֔ים יִקְרְא֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם אֵמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* Rephaites they.were.regarded also they like the Anakites and the Moabites they.called (to) them Emites

*JPS 1917:* these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.

[Deuteronomy 2:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.10/#tree)

הָאֵמִ֥ים לְפָנִ֖ים יָ֣שְׁבוּ בָ֑הּ עַ֣ם גָּד֥וֹל וְרַ֛ב וָרָ֖ם כָּעֲנָקִֽים׃

*Word for word:* the Emites formerly they.dwelt in it a.people great and numerous and lofty like the Anakites

*JPS 1917:* The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/368/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).