According to the Hebrew Bible, the Zuzim or Zuzites (Hebrew: , Zūzīm) were a tribe who lived in Ham, a land east of the Jordan River between Bashan and Moab. The etymology of the name is unknown, but may derive from the Hebrew zīz () which roughly translates to "moving things"/"things which move" (perhaps "nomad" in this context). some scholars identify the Zuzim with the Zamzummim (Deuteronomy 2:20), a tribe of the Rephaim living in the same region later occupied by the Ammonites, who were also described as coterminous with the Emim.

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