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RBT Translation:
And in four ten of a duplication has come in Handful-of-Sheaves, and the kings who are אֶת-him, and they are smiting אֶת-the Healers520 in Goddesses-of-the-Dual-Horns,521 and אֶת-the Roving Beasts522 in Warm, and אֶת-the Terrors523 in Level-Plain of Two Cities,524
LITV Translation:
And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him came and struck the giants in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
ESV Translation:
In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
Brenton Septuagint Translation:
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings with him, and cut to pieces the giants in Ashteroth, and Karnaim, and strong nations with them, and the Emim in the city Shaveh.

Footnotes

520

Strong’s #7497. Rephaim. From the root rapha (#7495) meaning to heal. Used of physicians and healers. Rophim, physicians, embalmed Israel in Genesis 50:2. Thought of as giants due to Deut. 3:11.

521

Strong's #6255: Ashtoreth-karnaim = Ashtoreth of the dual horns or peaks’. Ashtaroth is the plural of Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians (1 Kings 11:5, 33).

522

Strong’s #2104: Zuzim = ‘roving creatures’ or crawling things.

523

Strong’s #368: Emims = ‘terrors’

524

Strong’s #7740 and #7156. Shaveh-kiriathaim. Level Plains of Two Cities.