Hebrew word · H2157

זַמְזֻמִּים

zamzumim

Zamzummin

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

People descended from Repha(?), first mentioned at Gen.14.5

Another name of re.pha.im (רְפָאִים "Rephaim" H7497B)

§ Zamzummims = "plotters"

the Ammonite name for the people who by others were called Rephaim, and were described as a numerous nation of giants; perhaps the same as 'Zuzim'

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Deuteronomy · 1

  1. Deuteronomy 2:20 זַמְזֻמִּֽים׃ Zamzummites

    (That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.

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