Deuteronomy 2:11

11 quasi gigantes crederentur et essent similes filiorum Enacim denique Moabitae appellant eos Emim

Deuteronomy 2:11 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 2:11

Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims
Because of their bulky size and tall stature; or,

``the Rephaim were they accounted, even they as the Anakims;''

they were reckoned Rephaim, a name for giants in early times, even as the Anakims were; see ( Genesis 14:5 )

but the Moabites called them Emims;
to distinguish them from the Rephaim; so that it seems this name of Emims was not originally their name, but they are called so by a prolepsis, or anticipation, in ( Genesis 14:5 ) since they had it from the Moabites, a people of a later date.

Deuteronomy 2:11 In-Context

9 dixitque Dominus ad me non pugnes contra Moabitas nec ineas adversum eos proelium non enim dabo tibi quicquam de terra eorum quia filiis Loth tradidi Ar in possessionem

10 Emim primi fuerunt habitatores eius populus magnus et validus et tam excelsus ut de Enacim stirpe

11 quasi gigantes crederentur et essent similes filiorum Enacim denique Moabitae appellant eos Emim

12 in Seir autem prius habitaverunt Horim quibus expulsis atque deletis habitaverunt filii Esau sicut fecit Israhel in terra possessionis suae quam dedit ei Dominus

13 surgentes ergo ut transiremus torrentem Zared venimus ad eum