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# זַמְזֻמִּים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2157

**Zamzummim** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Zamzummim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2157/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זַמְזֻמִּים: n.pr.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2157/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent. said to be a name given to רְפָאִים by the Ammonites who dispossessed them Dt 2:20 (cf. Arabic زَمْزَمَ talk gibberish?), 𝔊 Ζοχομμιν, Ζομζομμειν, and Ζομμειν (so 𝔊L); cf. Gn 14:5 זוּזִים q.v. (𝔊 ἔθνη ἰσχυρά).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Zamzummites (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 2:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.20/#tree)

אֶֽרֶץ־רְפָאִ֥ים תֵּחָשֵׁ֖ב אַף־הִ֑וא רְפָאִ֤ים יָֽשְׁבוּ־בָהּ֙ לְפָנִ֔ים וְהָֽעַמֹּנִ֔ים יִקְרְא֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם זַמְזֻמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* the.land of.\[the\].Rephaites it.was.regarded also it \[the\].Rephaites they.dwelt in it formerly and the Ammonites they.called (to) them Zamzummites

*JPS 1917:* That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2157.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2157/): 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).