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Zamzummim <ref name="term_9627" /> | == Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_81634" /> == | ||
<p> or ZUZIM, a gigantic race of people, who, together with the [[Rephaim]] and Emim, men of like stature, occupied, in the time of Abraham, the country east of [[Jordan]] and the [[Dead]] Sea, where they were routed by Chedorlaomer, and from which they were afterward expelled by the Ammonites, Deuteronomy 2:20-21 . These, together with the Anakim, another family of giants, were all evidently of a race foreign to the original inhabitants of the countries where they were found; they were probably tribes of invading Cushites. The [[Vulgate]] and the [[Septuagint]] say, they were conquered with the Rephaim in Ashteroth-Karnaim. The [[Chaldee]] interpreters have taken [[Zuzim]] in the sense of an appellative, for stout and valiant men; and the Septuagint have rendered the word Zuzim, εθνη ισχυρα , <em> robust nations. </em> We meet with the word Zuzim only in [[Genesis]] 14:5 . </p> | |||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_54807" /> == | |||
<p> <strong> ZAMZUMMIM </strong> . A name given by the conquering [[Ammonites]] to the <strong> [[Rephaim]] </strong> , the original inhabitants of the land ( Deuteronomy 2:20 ). They are described as a people ‘great and many and tall like the Anakim’ (see art. Rephaim). The name <em> [[Zamzummim]] </em> has been connected with Arab. [Note: Arabic.] <em> zamzamah </em> ‘a distant and confused noise,’ and with <em> zizim </em> , the sound of the <em> jinn </em> heard in the desert at night. The word may thus perhaps be translated ‘Whisperers,’ ‘Murmurers,’ and may denote the spirits of the giants supposed to haunt the hills and ruins of [[Eastern]] [[Palestine]] (cf. art. Zuzim). </p> <p> W. F. Boyd. </p> | |||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_75538" /> == | |||
<p> Zamzum'mim. Deuteronomy 2:20 only, the [[Ammonite]] name for the people who by others were called Rephaim. They are described as having originally been a powerful and numerous nation of giants. From a slight similarity between the two names, and from the mention of the [[Emim]] in connection with each, it is conjectured that the [[Zamzummim]] are identical with the Zuzim. </p> | |||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_17541" /> == | |||
<p> A race of giants east of the Jordan, defeated by Chedorlaomer, [[Genesis]] 14:5 , and exterminated by the Ammonites, who possessed their territory until themselves subdued by Moses, Deuteronomy 2:20-21 . See [[Ammonites]] , and [[Zuzim]] . </p> | |||
== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70950" /> == | |||
<p> [[Zamzummim]] (zam-zŭm'mim.) Deuteronomy 2:20. The [[Ammonite]] name for the people who by others were called Rephaim. </p> | |||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_44691" /> == | |||
Deuteronomy 2:20[[Rephaim]] | |||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_66732" /> == | |||
<p> (Heb. Zamzummim', זִמְזמַּים; Sept. Ζομζομμείν v.r. Ζοχομμίν , Vulg. Zomzommim, A.V. "Zamzummims"), the Ammonitish name for the people who by others (though who they were does not appear) were called [[Rephaim]] (q.v.) (Deuteronomy 2:20 only). They are described as having originally been a powerful and numerous nation of giants — "great, many, and tall" — inhabiting the district which at the time of the [[Hebrew]] conquest was in the possession of the Ammonites, by whom the [[Zamzummim]] had a long time previously been destroyed. Where this district was it is not, perhaps, possible exactly to define; but it probably lay in the neighborhood of [[Rabbath-Ammon]] (the present Amman), the only city of the [[Ammonites]] of which the name or situation is preserved to us, and therefore eastward of that rich undulating country from which [[Moab]] had been forced by the [[Amorites]] (the modern Belka), and of the numerous towns of that country whose ruins and names are still encountered. </p> <p> From a slight similarity between the two names, and from the mention of the [[Emim]] in connection with each, it is usually assumed that the Zamzummim are identical with the [[Zuzim]] (q.v.) (Gesenius, Thesaur. p. 410 a; Ewald, Gesch. 1, 308, note; Knobel, On [[Genesis]] 14:5). Ewald further supports this by identifying [[Ham]] (q.v.), the capital city of the Zuzim (Genesis 14:5), with Ammon. But at best the identification is very conjectural. </p> <p> Various attempts have been made to explain the name: as, by comparison with the Arabic zamzam, "long-necked;" or samsam, "strong and big" (Simonis, Onomast. p. 135); or as "obstinate," from זָמִם (Luther), or as "noisy," from זַמְזִם (Gesenius, Thesaur. p. 419), or as onomatopoetic, intended to imitate the unintelligible jabber of foreigners. Michaelis (Supplem. No. 629) playfully recalls the likeness of the name to that of the well Zen-zem at Mecca, and suggests thereupon that the tribe may have originally come from Southern Arabia. [[Notwithstanding]] this banter, however, he ends his article with the following discreet words, "Nihil historiae, nihil originis populi novirmus fas sit etymolo gium aeque ignorare." See Journ. Sac. Lit. 1852, p. 366. </p> | |||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_9627" /> == | |||
<p> ''''' zam ''''' - ''''' zum´im ''''' ( זמזמּים , <i> ''''' zamzummı̄m ''''' </i> ): A race of giants who inhabited the region East of the [[Jordan]] afterward occupied by the [[Ammonites]] who displaced them. They are identified with the [[Rephaim]] ( Deuteronomy 2:20 ). They may be the same as the [[Zuzim]] mentioned in connection with the Rephaim in [[Genesis]] 14:5 . See [[Rephaim]] . </p> | <p> ''''' zam ''''' - ''''' zum´im ''''' ( זמזמּים , <i> ''''' zamzummı̄m ''''' </i> ): A race of giants who inhabited the region East of the [[Jordan]] afterward occupied by the [[Ammonites]] who displaced them. They are identified with the [[Rephaim]] ( Deuteronomy 2:20 ). They may be the same as the [[Zuzim]] mentioned in connection with the Rephaim in [[Genesis]] 14:5 . See [[Rephaim]] . </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_81634"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/watson-s-biblical-theological-dictionary/zamzummim Zamzummim from Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_54807"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-bible/zamzummim Zamzummim from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_75538"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/smith-s-bible-dictionary/zamzummim Zamzummim from Smith's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_17541"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/american-tract-society-bible-dictionary/zamzummim Zamzummim from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_70950"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/people-s-dictionary-of-the-bible/zamzummim Zamzummim from People's Dictionary of the Bible]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_44691"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/holman-bible-dictionary/zamzummim Zamzummim from Holman Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_66732"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/zamzummim Zamzummim from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_9627"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/zamzummim Zamzummim from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_9627"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/zamzummim Zamzummim from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
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