Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #5303 - נְפִיל Nephilim ("giants")

Original Word:	נְפִיל
Transliteration:	Nephilim
Definition:	"giants", name of two peoples, one before the flood and one after the flood
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(nef-eel')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

giant

Or nphil {nef-eel'}; from naphal; properly, a feller, i.e. A bully or tyrant -- giant.

see HEBREW naphal

Englishman's Concordance

1) giants, the Nephilim
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H5307
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1393a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

נְפִלִיםnoun masculine pluralgiants, according to ᵐ5γίγαντες so ᵑ6ᵑ9; הַנְּפִלִיםGenesis 6:4 (J), הַנְּפִילִים בְּנֵי עֲנָקמִןהַֿנְּפִלִיםNumbers 13:33 (JE); ᵐ5 omit ׳בְּנֵי וגו, and so Di; these words perhaps doublet, but already in ⅏, also ᵑ9 (etymology dubious; compare Aramaic נִיפְלָא, נְפִילָאOrion; conjectures see in Thes Di^{on the passage}; Tu Kn Len^{Or. i. 344, Eng. Tr. 345 f.}; Che^{Hebraica. iii (1887), 175, 176}; all very precarious).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 5303. נְפִילִים (Nephilim or Nephilim) — 3 Occurrences

Genesis 6:4
HEB: הַנְּפִלִ֞ים הָי֣וּ בָאָרֶץ֮
NAS:The Nephilim were on the earth
KJV:There were giants in the earth
INT:the Nephilim were on the earth

Numbers 13:33
HEB:רָאִ֗ינוּ אֶת־ הַנְּפִילִ֛ים בְּנֵ֥י עֲנָ֖ק
NAS: also we saw the Nephilim (the sons
KJV: And there we saw the giants, the sons
INT: There saw the Nephilim sons of Anak

Numbers 13:33
HEB:עֲנָ֖ק מִן־ הַנְּפִלִ֑ים וַנְּהִ֤י בְעֵינֵ֙ינוּ֙
NAS: of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became
KJV: of Anak, [which come] of the giants: and we were in our own sight
INT: of Anak at the Nephilim become sight

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