Strong H5303נְפִלִים
Nephilim
- Transliteration
- nephîyl nephil
- Pronunciation
- {nef-eel'} nef-eel'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of some kind in Gentilic sense
Definition
From H5307; {properly} a {feller} that {is} a bully or tyrant: - giant.
Detailed definition
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.
In the biblical story
Nephilim
Mysterious giants mentioned in the pre-flood and post-flood eras.
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.
In the Bible
Strong H5303 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- giant2
First verses
- Genesis 6:4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
- Numbers 13:33And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.