5303. Nephilim
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Nephilim: Giants

Original Word: נְפִיל
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: nphiyl
Pronunciation: neh-fee-LEEM
Phonetic Spelling: (nef-eel')
KJV: giant
NASB: Nephilim
Word Origin: [from H5307 (נָפַל - fall)]

1. (properly) a feller, i.e. a bully or tyrant

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
giant

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

see HEBREW naphal

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from naphal
Definition
"giants," name of two peoples, one before the flood and one after the flood
NASB Translation
Nephilim (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 Dion the passage; Tu Kn LenOr. i. 344, Eng. Tr. 345 f.; CheHebraica. iii (1887), 175, 176; all very precarious).

Forms and Transliterations
הַנְּפִילִ֛ים הַנְּפִלִ֑ים הַנְּפִלִ֞ים הנפילים הנפלים han·nə·p̄i·lîm han·nə·p̄î·lîm hannefiLim hannəp̄ilîm hannəp̄îlîm
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Englishman's Concordance
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

3 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 5303
3 Occurrences


han·nə·p̄i·lîm — 3 Occ.

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