Rephaims

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Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary [1]

(Genesis 14:5) Those were probably the same as Moses takes notice of Deuteronomy 2:10-11, there called Emims, a people great and tall, which in times past, it is said, were called giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites called them Emims. Rapha means giant, consequently Raphaim makes it plural giants. In the margin of the Bible, (2 Samuel 21:18; 2Sa 21:20) to the name of giant in each verse Rapha is preserved.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]

so the Hebrew plural Rephaim (q.v.) is incorrectly pluralized again in English in the A.V. (Genesis 14:5; Genesis 15:20).

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