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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.
This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
Anak (/ ˈ eɪ n æ k /; Hebrew: עֲנָק , [1] homophone to a word for "giant, long neck, necklace"; Hebrew pronunciation: [ʕaˈnɔːq]) is a figure in the Hebrew Bible.His descendants are mentioned in narratives concerning the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites.
David and Goliath (1888) by Osmar Schindler. Goliath [A] (/ ɡ ə ˈ l aɪ ə θ / gə-LY-əth) is a Philistine giant in the Book of Samuel.Descriptions of Goliath's immense stature vary among biblical sources, with various texts describing him as either 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) or 9 ft 9 in (2.97 m) tall. [1]
According to the Hebrew Bible, Amalek was the son of Eliphaz (himself the son of Esau, ancestor of the Edomites and the brother of Israel) and Eliphaz's concubine Timna. . Timna was a Horite and sister of Lot
Valley of Elah viewed from the top of Tel Azekah. The Valley of Elah, Ella Valley ("the valley of the terebinth"; [1] from the Hebrew: עמק האלה Emek HaElah), or Wadi es-Sunt (Arabic: وادي السنط), is a long, shallow valley in the Shephelah area of Israel, best known from the Hebrew Bible as the place where David defeated Goliath (1 Samuel 17:2; 1 Samuel 17:19).
A Stephanie's first name was pronounced "Eff-uni," and a Jessica, "Jay-sic-u." At one point, the speaker mispronounced “Thomas” as “Tom-mu-may” — before the graduate can be heard ...
The Philistine language (/ ˈ f ɪ l ə s t iː n, ˈ f ɪ l ə s t aɪ n, f ə ˈ l ɪ s t ə n, f ə ˈ l ɪ s t iː n /) [3] is the extinct language of the Philistines.Very little is known about the language, of which a handful of words survived as cultural loanwords in Biblical Hebrew, describing specifically Philistine institutions, like the seranim, the "lords" of the Philistine five ...