The Giants such as "Og" and even the word Rephaim and things like that were used as epithets calling upon powers of judgment, vengeance, and healing as well:
Names of the Giants in Bible
Adonizedec - King of Jerusalem
Joshua 10:1,3
Agag - King of the Amalakites
Numbers 24:7
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"And how canst thou have patience about things about which thy understanding is not complete?" 18:68
The Prophet said, "Allah created adam, making him 60 cubits tall. When He created him, He said to him, "Go and greet that group of angels, and listen to their reply, for it will be your...
GINOLJC, to all.
******* Type II. “Mighty Men”, Ordinary men in stature, “A Giant”
As previously stated, Nephilim do not mean “Giants” in stature, only, but here we will examine the Nephilim in stature, yes Giants. again we’ll look at the post, or after the flood and see these giants and where...
Nephilim are mentioned again as the sons of Anak in Numbers 13:33. I don't agree with you that this was necessarily a twisting of things by the fearful spies. Apparently they really did see giants in the land. They said they seemed like grasshoppers in comparison. Their fear however blinded them...
The term giant can be found in the Bible to describe people of an unusual size. Og, the king of Bashan was of the people of the Rephaim who were unusually tall. His bier was nine cubits (13.1 ft; 4 m) in length and four cubits (5.8 ft; 1.8 m) in width. (Deuteronomy 3:11) Other giants mentioned...
The measurement given is 6 cubits and a span in KJV 1Samuel17:4. A cubit is around the length of fingertip to the elbow, which is roughly 46 cm (or 18 inches). And a span is half a cubit, so 23 cm or 9 inches. In total that would mean 297.1 cm, near 3 metres (or 9 feet and 9 inches).
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No, it would take one notable exception, living circa 1100 BC, fighting in the Philistine army and being its most-feared soldier. It would also require him to be nine feet tall, according to 1Samuel17:4, which gets rid of the "giants are relative" line of reasoning - while 6'6" is "gigantic"...
That seems to indicate that the Bible might have been accurate, had it been copied accurately. Even if true, that doesn't do us much good in the real world.
Again, there is no true contradiction when you actually look at old Hebrew and Greek.
1 Chronicles 20:5 and 1Samuel17:4 clear up the apparent contradiction - it is obvious that it was a early copyist probably misread the Hebrew for "lahmi the brother of" as "the Bethlehemite (in Hebrew the...
I just arrived at work where I keep my copy of the Etz Hayim Torah and Commentary. The notes on Leviticus 1:2 read, in part:The word for "offering" [korban] comes from the Hebrew root krv, meaning "to bring close" or "to come close". When we give a gift to someone we feel close to, we feel even...
The intrusion of certain angels into the human family resulted in unnatural offspring termed Nephilim, which derives from the Hebrew naphal (to fall), or the Fallen Ones. (The Greek Septuagint renders this term gigantes, which actually means "earth-born." This is often misunderstood to mean...
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Giants of Gath
David Gaddy
Posted on 10/03/2001
We all have heard the story of David and how he slew Goliath the giant of the Philistines. But just in case, let's recap a bit...
I am always amazed how we can be so comfortable with our ignorancce yet speak with such confidence. So, for example, ...
When you read something that science and common sense suggest is extraordinarily unlikely, the problem may well be the current state of your knowlede rather than some defect...
New World TranslationGenesis 6:4 versus Numbers 13:33
This is a word used to describe a type of people that existed in Noah's time. Nephilim. In 1Samuel17:4 these persons are described as what was created when the true "sons of God" (angels) came to earth, had relations with human women and...