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- proper noun biblical A
biblical race ofgiants . - proper noun A people that speak in buzzing, mumbling, or rumbling noises (related to the hebrew word
זמזם "buzzer ")
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Examples
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The Ammonites likewise got possession of a country that had formerly been inhabited by giants, called Zamzummim, crafty men, or wicked men
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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Query -- Were these remains of the primeval Zamzummim?
Byeways in Palestine James Finn
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In regard to the "Zuzim" it seems best to accept the suggestion that this is merely another form of Zamzummim who are mentioned in De 2: 20.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Og, king of Bashan in the time of the Exodus, was "of the remnant of the Rephaim" (Deut.iii. 11); but so also were the Anakim in Hebron, the Emim in Moab, and the Zamzummim in Ammon
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Moabites, and like the Zamzummim, "a people great and many and tall," whom the Moabites expelled doubtless at the same time as that at which the Ammonites conquered the Zamzummim.
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Zamzummim and Ammon, and the same people are meant both in Genesis and in Deuteronomy.
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Zuzim perhaps inhabited the country of the Ammonites, who were identical with the Zamzummim, who are known to have ben exterminated and succeeded in their land by the Ammonites
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"fearful", (Deut. 2: 11), and to the Ammonites as Zamzummim.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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