Where the Jewish Publication Society translation simply transliterates the Hebrew nephilim as "Nephilim", the King James Version translates the term as "giants". The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown. The first occurrence is in Genesis 6:1–4, immediately before the account of Noah's Ark. In the Hebrew Bible, there are three interconnected passages referencing the nephilim. Symmachus translates it as "the violent ones" and Aquila's translation has been interpreted to mean either "the fallen ones" or "the ones falling. The majority of ancient biblical translations – including the Septuagint, Theodotion, Latin Vulgate, Samaritan Targum, Targum Onkelos, and Targum Neofiti – interpret the word to mean "giants". Ronald Hendel states that it is a passive form: 'ones who have fallen', grammatically analogous to paqid 'one who is appointed' (i.e., a deputy or overseer), asir 'one who is bound' (i.e., a prisoner), etc. Many suggested interpretations are based on the assumption that the word is a derivative of Hebrew verbal root n-p-l ( נ־פ־ל) "fall." Robert Baker Girdlestone argued in 1871 the word comes from the hif'il causative stem, implying that the Nephilim are to be perceived as 'those that cause others to fall down'. The Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon (1908) gives the meaning of Nephilim as " giants", and holds that proposed etymologies of the word are "all very precarious". According to the Book of Numbers 13:33, a report from ten of the Twelve Spies was given of them inhabiting Canaan at the time of the Israelite conquest of Canaan.Ī similar or identical biblical Hebrew term, read as "Nephilim" by some scholars, or as the word "fallen" by others, appears in the Book of Ezekiel 32:27 and is also mentioned in the deuterocanonical books Judith 16:6, Sirach 16:7, Baruch 3:26–28, and Wisdom 14:6. The main reference to them is in Genesis 6:1–4, but the passage is ambiguous and the identity of the Nephilim is disputed. Some Jewish explanations interpret them as hybrid sons of fallen angels (demigods). The word Nephilim is loosely translated as giants in most translations of the Hebrew Bible, but left untranslated in others. The Nephilim ( / ˈ n ɛ f ɪ ˌ l ɪ m/ Hebrew: נְפִילִים Nəfīlīm) are mysterious beings or people in the Hebrew Bible who are described as being large and strong.
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