giants 音标拼音: [dʒ'ɑɪənts]
Giants (
1 .)
Heb .
nephilim ,
meaning "
violent "
or "
causing to fall " (
Gen .
6 :
4 ).
These were the violent tyrants of those days ,
those who fell upon others .
The word may also be derived from a root signifying "
wonder ,"
and hence "
monsters "
or "
prodigies ."
In Num .
13 :
33 this name is given to a Canaanitish tribe ,
a race of large stature , "
the sons of Anak ."
The Revised Version ,
in these passages ,
simply transliterates the original ,
and reads "
Nephilim ."
(
2 .)
Heb .
rephaim ,
a race of giants (
Deut .
3 :
11 )
who lived on the east of Jordan ,
from whom Og was descended .
They were probably the original inhabitants of the land before the immigration of the Canaanites .
They were conquered by Chedorlaomer (
Gen .
14 :
5 ),
and their territories were promised as a possession to Abraham (
15 :
20 ).
The Anakim ,
Zuzim ,
and Emim were branches of this stock .
In Job 26 :
5 (
R .
V ., "
they that are deceased ;"
marg ., "
the shades ,"
the "
Rephaim ")
and Isa .
14 :
9 this Hebrew word is rendered (
A .
V .) "
dead ."
It means here "
the shades ,"
the departed spirits in Sheol .
In Sam .
21 :
16 ,
18 ,
20 ,
33 , "
the giant "
is (
A .
V .)
the rendering of the singular form _ha raphah_ ,
which may possibly be the name of the father of the four giants referred to here ,
or of the founder of the Rephaim .
The Vulgate here reads "
Arapha ,"
whence Milton (
in Samson Agonistes )
has borrowed the name "
Harapha ." (
See also 1 Chron .
20 :
5 ,
6 ,
8 ;
Deut .
2 :
11 ,
20 ;
3 :
13 ;
Josh .
15 :
8 ,
etc .,
where the word is similarly rendered "
giant .")
It is rendered "
dead "
in (
A .
V .)
Ps .
88 :
10 ;
Prov .
2 :
18 ;
9 :
18 ;
21 :
16 :
in all these places the Revised Version marg .
has "
the shades ." (
See also Isa .
26 :
14 .)
(
3 .)
Heb . '
Anakim (
Deut .
2 :
10 ,
11 ,
21 ;
Josh .
11 :
21 ,
22 ;
14 :
12 ,
15 ;
called "
sons of Anak ,"
Num .
13 :
33 ; "
children of Anak ,"
13 :
22 ;
Josh .
15 :
14 ),
a nomad race of giants descended from Arba (
Josh .
14 :
15 ),
the father of Anak ,
that dwelt in the south of Palestine near Hebron (
Gen .
23 :
2 ;
Josh .
15 :
13 ).
They were a Cushite tribe of the same race as the Philistines and the Egyptian shepherd kings .
David on several occasions encountered them (
2 Sam .
21 :
15 -
22 ).
From this race sprung Goliath (
1 Sam .
17 :
4 ).
(
4 .)
Heb . '
emin ,
a warlike tribe of the ancient Canaanites .
They were "
great ,
and many ,
and tall ,
as the Anakims " (
Gen .
14 :
5 ;
Deut .
2 :
10 ,
11 ).
(
5 .)
Heb .
Zamzummim (
q .
v .),
Deut .
2 :
20 so called by the Amorites .
(
6 .)
Heb .
gibbor (
Job 16 :
14 ),
a mighty one ,
i .
e .,
a champion or hero .
In its plural form (
gibborim )
it is rendered "
mighty men " (
2 Sam .
23 :
8 -
39 ;
1 Kings 1 :
8 ;
1 Chr .
11 :
9 -
47 ;
29 :
24 .)
The band of six hundred whom David gathered around him when he was a fugitive were so designated .
They were divided into three divisions of two hundred each ,
and thirty divisions of twenty each .
The captians of the thirty divisions were called "
the thirty ,"
the captains of the two hundred "
the three ,"
and the captain over the whole was called "
chief among the captains " (
2 Sam .
23 :
8 ).
The sons born of the marriages mentioned in Gen .
6 :
4 are also called by this Hebrew name .
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