Deuteronomy 2:20-23

Another Archaeological Note. On the Repha'im, see Deuteronomy 1:28. Zamzummim, a name held by some to be formed on the analogy of the Gk -Barbaroi," as of a people whose speech sounded uncouth; Ar. zamzamahis a distant, confused sound. Others suggest identification with the Zuzîm of Genesis 14:5, of which Musil (Moab, i. 275, 318, etc.) is reminded by the present Zîzâ, Ptolemy's Ziza on the N.E. frontier of Mo'ab. But the Ar. zizimis applied to rustling sounds in the desert by night, supposed to be the noise of the Jinn (see Driver's note, with communication from W. R. Smith, and Schwally, D. Leben nach d. Tode, 64 f., 137 ff.). The name would thus be another of those mythological terms for pre-historic races given above on Deuteronomy 1:28. On the Ḥorites, see Deuteronomy 2:12. On the -Avvîmor -Awwîmcp. Joshua 13:3 f.; whether the name be ethnic or indicative of a stage of culture is uncertain. They dwelt in villages, Heb. ḥaṣerîm(mostly in P and Levit. writers), used both in parallel to circles of tents, Genesis 25:16, and to collections of houses without surrounding walls, Leviticus 25:31, and the dependencies of cities, Joshua 15:46 etc. Kaphtôris most probably Crete, see HGHL135, 170 f.