ZUZIM; certain Giants, who dwelt beyond Jordan, and who were conquer’d by Chedorlaomer and his Allies, in the Year of the World 2079, before Christ 1921, before the Vulgar Æra 1225. St. Jerome says, that the Hebrew reads, they were conquered at Hem: but the present Hebrew says at Ham. The Situation of this Place is unknown, granting it to be a Place. The Vulgate, and the Septuagint, say, they were conquered with the Rephaims in Ashteroth-Karnaim. The Chaldee and the Septuagint have taken Zuzim in the Sense of an Apellative, for stout and valiant Men. We conjecture the Zuzim to be the same as the Zamzummims in Deut. ii. 20. There is found one Severus who was Bishop of Zuzuma, under the Metropolis of Bostra, among those that subscribed to the First Council of Nice.a
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