Strong's Hebrew · H5303

נְפִיל

nᵉphîyl · nef-eel'

giant.

Definition

properly, a feller, i.e. a bully or tyrant

Derivation

or נְפִל; from H5307 (נָפַל);

Appears 3 times in Scripture

Genesis 6:4

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 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!”

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