Strong H6062עֲנָקִי

Anakim

Transliteration: ‛ănâqîy
Pronunciation: an-aw-kee'
Morphology: Proper Name of a Person in Gentilic sense

Definition

Patronymic from H6061; an Anakite or descendant of Anak: - Anakim.

Meaning of the name

Anakims = "long-necked"

Detailed definition

Someone descended from Anak who was a man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.13.22;
father of: Ahiman (H289), Sheshai (H8344) and Talmai (H8526); also called Anakim at Deu.1.28; 2.10,11,21; 9.2; 1x,22; 14.12,15;
Group of a.naq (עֲנָק "Anak" H6061)

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 H6062 appears in 9 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

anakims8
none1

First verses

Deuteronomy 1:28
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
Deuteronomy 2:10
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
Deuteronomy 2:11
Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
Deuteronomy 2:21
A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the Lord destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
Deuteronomy 9:2
A 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 11:21
And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.
Joshua 11:22
There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
Joshua 14:12
Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said.
Joshua 14:15
And the name of Hebron before was Kirjath–arba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.