Emims

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Emims, fears; terrors; formidable; people