Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 2:11
Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
11. Rephaim Anakim ] See on Deu 1:28.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 11. Which also were accounted giants] This is not a fortunate version. The word is not giants, but Rephaim, the name of a people. It appears that the Emim, the Anakim, and the Rephaim, were probably the same people, called by different names in the different countries where they dwelt; for they appear originally to have been a kind of wandering free-booters, who lived by plunder. (See on the preceding verse.) It must be granted, however, that there were several men of this race of extraordinary stature. And hence all gigantic men have been called Rephaim. (See on Ge 6:4, and Ge 14:5.) But we well know that fear and public report have often added whole cubits to men’s height. It was under this influence that the spies acted, when they brought the disheartening report mentioned Nu 13:33.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
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 Ge 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
Ge 14:5 since they had it from the Moabites, a people of a later date.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
giants. Hebrew. Rephaim, another name for the Nephilim, from one Rapha. See App-25. Connected with healing, and with Egypt (Gen 50:2). See App-23.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
as the Anakims: Deu 1:28, Deu 9:2, Num 13:22, Num 13:28, Num 13:33
Reciprocal: Gen 14:5 – Emims Deu 2:10 – General Deu 2:21 – great Amo 2:9 – whose