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, Deut. ii, 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, ἔθνη
ἰσχυρὰ, _robust nations_. We meet with the word Zuzim only in Gen. xiv,
5.
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, Deut. ii, 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, ἔθνη
ἰσχυρὰ, _robust nations_. We meet with the word Zuzim only in Gen. xiv,
5.