Strong's Hebrew · H5303
H5303 nᵉphîyl
נְפִיל
nef-eel'
Nephilim
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nᵉphîyl appears 3 times in Scripture, in Genesis 6:4 and Numbers 13:33. In the Doxa app, open each of these verses, keep your notes on them, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
properly, a feller, i.e. a bully or tyrant
In the King James Version
giant.
Derivation
or נְפִל; from H5307 (נָפַל);
Appears 3 times in Scripture
“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.”
“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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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
