Emims

The Emim are a pre-Israelite people of large stature who once held the territory east of the Jordan that later passed to Moab. They are reckoned with the Rephaim and named alongside the Anakim in scripture's notices of the early giant populations.

Defeated by Chedorlaomer

The earliest mention catches the Emim caught up in the campaign of the eastern kings against the cities of the plain: "And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim," (Gen 14:5).

Former Inhabitants of Moab's Land

When Moses recounts the dispossessions that cleared the way for Israel's neighbors, the Emim are remembered as the Anakim-like population displaced before the Moabites: "(The Emim dwelt in it previously, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim: these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim" (Deut 2:10-11).