Nephil נְפִלִים
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| נְפִלִים | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | nephil |
| Strong's number | H5303 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | title |
| Gloss | Nephilim |
| Occurrences | 3 in 2 verses |
| Most frequent in | Genesis (1) |
Nephil (Hebrew נְפִלִים, Strong's H5303) is a title in the Old Testament, glossed “Nephilim”. It occurs 3 times.
Definition
People descended from Nephil(?), first mentioned at Gen.6.4
giants, the Nephilim
giants, the Nephilim
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | giants (3) |
|---|---|
| BSB | nephilim (3) |
Topics
Verses
Every verse with Nephil, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Genesis
- Genesis 6:4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.
Numbers
- Numbers 13:33And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).