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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8511944" data-attributes="member: 58172">In short, "Rfaim" means "aborigines", but it often refers to the ancestral ghosts of these aborigines.Rfaim are the aboriginal ancestors as well as the various surviving aboriginal groups that descend from them. The aboriginal Anakim are especially known for these ancestors. There are also other, related, aboriginal groups.Here is my translation.Deuteronomy 2. 10-11, 20הָאֵמִים לְפָנִים יָשְׁבוּ בָהּ עַם גָּדֹול וְרַב וָרָם כָּעֲנָקִים׃רְפָאִים יֵחָשְׁבוּ אַף־הֵם כָּעֲנָקִים וְהַמֹּאָבִים יִקְרְאוּ לָהֶם אֵמִים׃אֶרֶץ רְפָאִים תֵּחָשֵׁב אַף הִוא רְפָאִים יָשְׁבוּ בָהּ , לְפָנִים וְהָעַמֹּנִים יִקְרְאוּ לָהֶם זַמְזֻמִּים׃ ."Beforehand, the Emim resided in (that land), a kin (as) great and amassing and lofty as the Anakim.Those would even be thought (to be) Rfaim, as the Anakim are. And the Moavim would call them Emim.... That (land) would even be thought (to be) the land of Rfaim. Rfaim resided in it, beforehand. And the Amonim would call them Zamzumim."The "Rfaim" refer to those aboriginal peoples whose ancestors are now ghosts that wield great magical power.Especially the tribe called Anakim are known for these ancestral Rfaim.These aboriginal tribes go by various names, such as Emim and Zamzumim.It is unclear to me, if these other names are endonyms (what the aborigines call themselves) or exonyms (what other ethnicities call them). But different regions refer to the aborigines by different names.Note, here, the King James Version of the Bible, relying on Greek legends, is translating the aboriginal ethnic grouping "Rfaim" as if "giants".The Hebrew term Rfaim רפאים means "shades" (spirits, ghosts). Probably the term derives from the verb "weakened" רפה , (weakened, drooped, sank down, was lazy), and refers to the ancestral spirits resting in peace.The concept of Rfaim relates the concept of the underworld Shol, and perhaps to the D&D 5e concept of the Shadowfell.The aboriginal tribes appear to be known for the veneration of their ancestors, and to call on them for help. Other groups feared the power of these ancestors.</blockquote>

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