Nephilim
The Nephilim were a race of giants mentioned in the context of the sons of God marrying human women before the flood and later encountered by the Israelite spies in Canaan.
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Summary
People from Nephil(?), first mentioned at Genesis 6:4; only referred to as Nephilim (נְפִלִים).
Glossary entries
Alternative names
- נְפִלִיםNephilim
Mentions
- The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.
- We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”