That also was accounted a land of giants
Ammon was so reckoned as well as Moab, ( Deuteronomy
2:10 Deuteronomy
2:11 )
giants dwelt therein in old time;
the Rephaim dwelt there, as they did also in Ashteroth Karnaim, (
Genesis
14:5 )
and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
they are thought to be the same with the Zuzims in ( Genesis 14:5
) who had their name, as Hillerus F3 thinks, from Mezuzah, a
door post, from their tall stature, being as high as one; and for
a like reason Saph the giant might have his name, ( 2 Samuel
21:18 ) . The word Zamzummims, according to him F4,
signifies contrivers of evil and terrible things; they were
inventors of wickedness, crafty and subtle in forming wicked and
mischievous designs, which struck terror into people, and made
them formidable to them.