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title: זַמְזֻמִּים — Zamzummim · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זַמְזֻמִּים (2157), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Zamzummim. BDB 1906: n.pr.gent. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זַמְזֻמִּים

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«זַמְזֻמִּים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Zamzummim** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2157 · **BDB:** זַמְזֻמִּים

### Glosses

Zamzummites (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Zamzummim [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2157/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2157/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent. said to be a name given to רְפָאִים by the Ammonites who dispossessed them Dt 2:20 (cf. Arabic زَمْزَمَ talk gibberish?), 𝔊 Ζοχομμιν, Ζομζομμειν, and Ζομμειν (so 𝔊L); cf. Gn 14:5 זוּזִים q.v. (𝔊 ἔθνη ἰσχυρά).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זַמְזֻמִּים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2157/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 2:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.20/)

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אֶֽרֶץ־רְפָאִ֥ים תֵּחָשֵׁ֖ב אַף־הִ֑וא רְפָאִ֤ים יָֽשְׁבוּ־בָהּ֙ לְפָנִ֔ים וְהָֽעַמֹּנִ֔ים יִקְרְא֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם זַמְזֻמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* the.land of.\[the\].Rephaites it.was.regarded also it \[the\].Rephaites they.dwelt in it formerly and the Ammonites they.called (to) them Zamzummites

*JPS 1917:* That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

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