Numbers 13:28
New International Version
But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there.

New Living Translation
But the people living there are powerful, and their towns are large and fortified. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak!

English Standard Version
However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

Berean Standard Bible
Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.

King James Bible
Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

New King James Version
Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.

New American Standard Bible
Nevertheless, the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And indeed, we saw the descendants of Anak there!

NASB 1995
“Nevertheless, the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

NASB 1977
“Nevertheless, the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

Legacy Standard Bible
Nevertheless, the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

Amplified Bible
But the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified (walled) and very large; moreover, we saw there the descendants of Anak [people of great stature and courage].

Christian Standard Bible
However, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We also saw the descendants of Anak there.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
However, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We also saw the descendants of Anak there.

American Standard Version
Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
However the people dwelling in the land is strong and the towns are fortified and very great, also we saw the sons of the giants there.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Only the nation that dwells upon it is bold, and they have very great and strong walled towns, and we saw there the children of Enach.

Contemporary English Version
But the people who live there are strong, and their cities are large and walled. We even saw the three Anakim clans.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But it hath very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great and walled. We saw there the race of Enac.

English Revised Version
Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fenced, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But the people who live there are strong, and the cities have walls and are very large. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.

Good News Translation
But the people who live there are powerful, and their cities are very large and well fortified. Even worse, we saw the descendants of the giants there.

International Standard Version
except that the people who have settled in the land are strong, and their cities are greatly fortified. We also saw the descendants of Anak.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are fierce, and the cities are fortified, and very great; and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

Literal Standard Version
only, surely the people which is dwelling in the land [is] strong; and the cities are fortified [and] very great; and we have also seen children of Anak there.

Majority Standard Bible
Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.

New American Bible
However, the people who are living in the land are powerful, and the towns are fortified and very large. Besides, we saw descendants of the Anakim there.

NET Bible
But the inhabitants are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.

New Revised Standard Version
Yet the people who live in the land are strong, and the towns are fortified and very large; and besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

New Heart English Bible
However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

Webster's Bible Translation
Nevertheless, the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.

World English Bible
However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.

Young's Literal Translation
only, surely the people which is dwelling in the land is strong; and the cities are fenced, very great; and also children of Anak we have seen there.

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Context
The Reports of the Spies
27And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit! 28Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there. 29The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”…

Cross References
Numbers 13:22
They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

Numbers 13:33
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!"

Deuteronomy 1:28
Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: 'The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.'"

Deuteronomy 9:1
Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.

Deuteronomy 9:2
The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, "Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?"

2 Samuel 21:16
Then Ishbi-benob, a descendant of Rapha, whose bronze spear weighed three hundred shekels and who was bearing a new sword, resolved to kill David.


Treasury of Scripture

Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

strong

Deuteronomy 1:28
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.

Deuteronomy 2:10,11,21
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; …

Deuteronomy 3:5
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.

saw the

Numbers 13:22,23,33
And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) …

Joshua 11:22
There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.

Joshua 15:14
And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

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(28) Nevertheless the people be strong . . . --The spies adopted the words of Exodus 3:8, "flowing with milk and honey," as descriptive of the fertility of the land of Canaan, but at the same time they discouraged the hearts of their brethren by their description of the strength of the fortified cities and the gigantic stature of the inhabitants.

The children of Anak.--Better, of the Anakim. (See Numbers 13:22, and Note.)

Verse 28. - Nevertheless. אֶפֶס כִּי. "Only that." Septuagint, ἀλλ η} ὅτι. The people be strong. Moses himself had directed their attention to this point, and now they dwell on it to the exclusion of everything else.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Nevertheless,
אֶ֚פֶס (’e·p̄es)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 657: Cessation, an end, no further, the ankle, foot

the people
הָעָ֔ם (hā·‘ām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

living
הַיֹּשֵׁ֖ב (hay·yō·šêḇ)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

in the land
בָּאָ֑רֶץ (bā·’ā·reṣ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

are strong,
עַ֣ז (‘az)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 5794: Strong, vehement, harsh

and the cities
וְהֶֽעָרִ֗ים (wə·he·‘ā·rîm)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 5892: Excitement

are large
גְּדֹלֹת֙ (gə·ḏō·lōṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent

and fortified.
מְאֹ֔ד (mə·’ōḏ)
Adverb
Strong's 3966: Vehemence, vehemently, wholly, speedily

We even
וְגַם־ (wə·ḡam-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

saw
רָאִ֥ינוּ (rā·’î·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's 7200: To see

the descendants
יְלִדֵ֥י (yə·li·ḏê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3211: Born

of Anak
הָֽעֲנָ֖ק (hā·‘ă·nāq)
Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 6061: Anak -- 'neck', a Canaanite

there.
שָֽׁם׃ (šām)
Adverb
Strong's 8033: There, then, thither


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