Strong H6061עֲנָק
Anak
- Transliteration
- ‛ânâq
- Pronunciation
- aw-nawk'
- Morphology
- Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person
Definition
The same as H6060; {Anak} a Canaanite: - Anak.
Meaning of the name
Anak = "neck"
Detailed definition
In the biblical story
Anak
Ancestor of giant people in Canaan
Anak was the ancestor of the Anakim, a race of giants who inhabited Canaan before the Israelite conquest.
In the Bible
Strong H6061 appears in 8 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- anak8
First verses
- Numbers 13:22And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
- Numbers 13:28Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 9:2A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
- Joshua 15:13And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.
- Joshua 15:14And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
- Joshua 21:11And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.
- Judges 1:20And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak.