Lexicon Nephilim: "giants," name of two peoples, one before the flood and one after the flood Original Word: נְפִילִיםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: Nephilim Phonetic Spelling: (nef-eel') Short Definition: Nephilim NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom naphalDefinition"giants," name of two peoples, one before the flood and one after the flood NASB TranslationNephilim (3).
Brown-Driver-Briggs נְפִלִים noun masculine plural giants, according to ᵐ5 γίγαντες so ᵑ6 ᵑ9; הַנְּפִלִים Genesis 6:4 (J), הַנְּפִילִים בְּנֵי עֲנָק מִןהַֿנְּפִלִים Numbers 13:33 (JE); ᵐ5 omit ׳בְּנֵי וגו, and so Di; these words perhaps doublet, but already in ⅏, also ᵑ9 (etymology dubious; compare Aramaic נִיפְלָא, נְפִילָא Orion; 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). Strong's giant Or nphil {nef-eel'}; from naphal; properly, a feller, i.e. A bully or tyrant -- giant. see HEBREW naphal |
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