Zamzummim, Emim, Zuzim, Anakim: Other giant peoples of Canaan and the lands east of the Jordan, named alongside the Rephaim (Deuteronomy 2:10-11, 2:20).
On his way to punish five rebel cities he defeated the Rephaim, the Zuzim and the Emim, peoples the Bible counts among the giants.
In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim
Emim: Another group of giants, dwelling in Shaveh Kiriathaim.
The earlier victories over the Rephaim, Zuzim, Emim, and Horites demonstrate the might and reach of Chedorlaomer's coalition before they confront the kings of the Dead Sea area.
The Emims are compared with them: Deuteronomy 2:10-11 calls the Emims "tall, as the Anakims"
They name the Rephaims, the Zuzims, the Emims and the Horites, whom Chedorlaomer defeated.
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim, And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.
Moses describes the Emims of Moab by comparing them with the Anakims.
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites called them Emims.
In his reading, Chedorlaomer fought three groups of giants: the Rephaim (which the Septuagint renders as "giants" in Genesis 14:5), the Zuzim (probably the Zamzummim of Deuteronomy 2:20) and the Emim (Deuteronomy 2:10-11).
Emim
The Emims beside the Anakims
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
Deuteronomy 2 places the Emims in the land the LORD gave "unto the children of Lot for a possession" (Deuteronomy 2:9, KJV), the land of the Moabites.
The next verse says they "also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites called them Emims" (Deuteronomy 2:11, KJV).
Emim was the Moabite name for the people the Hebrew text counts among the Repha'im.
The Emim are described in the Book of Deuteronomy, particularly in chapter 2, as a formidable and populous people.
Genesis names the Emims among the peoples struck by Chedorlaomer and his allied kings, "the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim" (Genesis 14:5, KJV).
Rashi, the medieval Jewish commentator, explains the name Emim from the Hebrew אימה, dread, because the dread of the Emim lay upon the people.
The Zuzim are mentioned alongside the Emim, a tribe later identified in the Book of Deuteronomy as the Moabite term for the Rephaim, a race of giants or mighty people in ancient texts.
The Zamzummim, like the Emim, were noted for their size and strength.
The identification of the Zuzim with the Rephaim, specifically the Zamzummim, and their connection to the Emim reflect the complex ethnographic and cultural landscape of the ancient Near East as depicted in biblical texts.
Related giant clans in the Torah include Rephaim, Emim, and Zamzummim (Deuteronomy 2).