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Anakim (Hebrew: עֲנָקִים ʿĂnāqīm) are mentioned in the Bible as descendants of Anak. [1] According to the Old Testament, the Anakim lived in the southern part of the land of Canaan, near Hebron (Gen. 23:2; Josh. 15:13). Genesis 14:5–6 states that they inhabited the region later known as Edom and Moab in the days of Abraham.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon (1908) gives the meaning of Nephilim as "giants", and warns that proposed etymologies of the word are "all very precarious". [13] Many suggested interpretations are based on the assumption that the word is a derivative of Hebrew verbal root n-p-l (נ־פ־ל) "fall".
According to the Book of Numbers, Anak was a forefather of the Anakim, a Rephaite tribe according to Deuteronomy 2:11. [2] [3] [4] In their report, ten of the twelve Israelite spies associated the Anakim with the Nephilim of Genesis 6:1–4. [5]
The giants brought forth [some say "slew"] the Naphelim, and the Naphelim brought forth [or "slew"] the Elioud. And they existed, increasing in power according to their greatness." The 1913 translation of R.H. Charles of the Book of Jubilees 7:21–25 [ 15 ] reads as follows (note that "Naphil" is an alternative transliteration form of "Nephilim"):
This results in the creation of the Nephilim or Anakim / Anak (giants) as they are described in the book: And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three hundred ells: [h] Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind.
But the men who had gone up with him said, "We can't attack those people; they are stronger than we are." And they spread a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, "The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there were of great size. We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the ...
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The word Nephilim is loosely translated as giants in some ... The Anakim [10 ] The Amorites [11] [12 ... Giants stand for the Basque people reluctant to convert to ...