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Date "EMIMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references)

Specialty Definition: EMIMS

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Bible1: (terrors), a tribe or family of gigantic stature which originally inhabited the region along the eastern side of the Dead Sea. They were related to the Anakim. (references)
 2: Emims terrors, a warlike tribe of giants who were defeated by Chedorlaomer and his allies in the plain of Kiriathaim. In the time of Abraham they occupied the country east of Jordan, afterwards the land of the Moabites (Gen. 14:5; Deut. 2:10). They were, like the Anakim, reckoned among the Rephaim, and were conquered by the Moabites, who gave them the name of Emims, i.e., "terrible men" (Deut. 2:11). The Ammonites called them Zamzummims (2:20). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
WikipedicThe Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;Bible Deut. (references)

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