The Emim, a great and numerous people as tall as the Anakim, had previously lived there.

a great and numerous people, tall as the Anakim. The Lord destroyed the Rephaim at the advance of the Ammonites, so that they drove them out and settled in their place.

Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them and you have heard it said about them, ‘Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?’