가나안 지역에 거주하던 원주민 중 하나이다.
아낙 자손 만큼 크고 용맹하다고 나와있다.
에밈으로도, 르바로도, 삼숨밈으로도 불리웠다.
10 (The Emim lived there before, a great and numerous people, and tall as the Anakim.
11 These also are considered to be Rephaim , as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
(That also is considered a land of Rephaim . Rephaim lived there in the past, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
르바 족속으로도 불리웠다.
and the border of Og king of Bashan , of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
all the kingdom of Og in Bashan , who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (who was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses attacked these, and drove them out.
이 민족중 남은자였던 사람으로
Og 이 있다.
(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its width, after the cubit of a man.)
가나안 정복 전쟁 당시 이들이 살던 지역을
요셉 지파 에게 주었는데, 그들은 이 민족의 강함으로 인해 두려워하였다.
14 The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since we are a numerous people, because Yahweh has blessed us so far?”
15 Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim ; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”
16 The children of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”
17 Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, that is, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, “You are a numerous people, and have great power. You shall not have one lot only;
18 but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and it’s farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites , though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”
이들이 살던 지역은
David 의 시대까지 블레셋과의 전쟁터가 되었다.
Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam ; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim .