Deuteronomy 2:11
They were esteemed as giants, and were like the sons of the Enacims. But the Moabites call them Emims.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- quasi gigantes crederentur, et essent similes filiorum Enacim. Denique Moabitæ appellant eos Emim.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ῥαφαεὶν λογισθήσονται καὶ οὗτοι ὥσπερ οἱ Ἐνακείμ· καὶ οἱ Μωαβεῖται ἐπονομάζουσιν αὐτοὺς Ὀμμείν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- רְפָאִ֛ים יֵחָשְׁב֥וּ אַף הֵ֖ם כָּעֲנָקִ֑ים וְהַמֹּ֣אָבִ֔ים יִקְרְא֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם אֵמִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Giants. Hebrew Raphaim, which Grotius thinks is a word retained from the primitive language. It sometimes denotes giants, and those who groan in hell, on account of the great iniquity of the Raphaim, Job. xxvi. 5. Og was one of their descendants, and inhabited the same country, which they had occupied in the days of Abraham, chap. iii. 2. (Calmet)
They lost much of their power in the war of Sodom. Some of them fled into the land of the Philistines, and established themselves there, 1 Kings xxi. 16. As these gigantic nations had been overthrown, as well as the Horrhites, when God formerly gave their territories to Moad and to Esau, (Haydock) so the Hebrews may be assured, that nothing will be able to resist their power, while He is with them. (Menochius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.