Numbers 13:33
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33 There we saw the [a]giants ((A)the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were (B)like[b] grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were (C)in their sight.”
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- Numbers 13:33 Heb. nephilim
- Numbers 13:33 As mere insects
Deuteronomy 1:28
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28 Where can we go up? Our brethren have [a]discouraged our hearts, saying, (A)“The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the (B)Anakim there.” ’
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- Deuteronomy 1:28 Lit. melted
Deuteronomy 9:2
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2 a people great and tall, the (A)descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’
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Isaiah 40:22
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22 It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
Who (A)stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
And spreads them out like a (B)tent to dwell in.
Genesis 6:4
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4 There were [a]giants on the earth in those (A)days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
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- Genesis 6:4 Heb. nephilim, fallen or mighty ones
1 Samuel 17:42
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42 And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he (A)disdained[a] him; for he was only a youth, (B)ruddy and good-looking.
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- 1 Samuel 17:42 belittled
Deuteronomy 3:11
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11 (A)“For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of (B)the [a]giants. Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. (Is it not in (C)Rabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.
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- Deuteronomy 3:11 Heb. rephaim
1 Chronicles 11:23
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23 And he killed an Egyptian, a man of great height, [a]five cubits tall. In the Egyptian’s hand there was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, wrested the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.
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- 1 Chronicles 11:23 About 7 1⁄2 feet
2 Samuel 21:20-22
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20 Yet again (A)there was war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also was born to [a]the giant. 21 So when he (B)defied Israel, Jonathan the son of [b]Shimea, David’s brother, killed him.
22 (C)These four were born to [c]the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
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- 2 Samuel 21:20 Or Rapha
- 2 Samuel 21:21 Shammah, 1 Sam. 16:9 and elsewhere
- 2 Samuel 21:22 Or Rapha
1 Samuel 17:4-7
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4 And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named (A)Goliath, from (B)Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. 5 He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was [a]armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze. 6 And he had bronze armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders. 7 Now the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his iron spearhead weighed six hundred shekels; and a shield-bearer went before him.
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- 1 Samuel 17:5 clothed with scaled body armor
Deuteronomy 2:10
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10 (A)(The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as (B)the Anakim.
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Numbers 13:22
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22 And they went up through the South and came to (A)Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of (B)Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
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