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GIANTS

A legendary race of imposing physical stature. These primordial inhabitants of the Promised Land went by several names. Gen. 6:4 identifies remarkably tall Nephilim (Num. 13:33) as the offspring of gods and women. According to Gen. 14:5-6 eastern kings subdued Rephaim from Bashan, Zuzim/Zamzummim from Ammon, Emim from Moab, and Horites from Edom. The Amorite king Og, who owned a bedstead 9 cubits by 4 cubits, was allegedly a remnant of the Rephaim (Deut. 3:11). Great size along with extra fingers and toes characterized descendants of the Rephaim — otherwise called the Anakim (Josh. 11:21-22) — in Philistia (2 Sam. 21:15-22; 1 Chr. 20:4-8).

Bibliography. E. C. Hostetter, Nations Mightier and More Numerous: The Biblical View of Palestine’s Pre-Israelite Peoples. BIBALDS 3 (N. Richland Hills, Tex., 1995), 96-111.

Edwin C. Hostetter






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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