King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H5303
Transliteration: Nephilim
Phonetic Spelling: (nef-eel')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: "giants", name of two peoples, one before the flood and one after the flood
Meaning: Nephilim -- "giants", name of two peoples, one before the flood and one after the flood
Word Summary
Nephilim: "giants", name of two peoples, one before the flood and one after the flood
Original Word: נְפִילTransliteration: Nephilim
Phonetic Spelling: (nef-eel')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: "giants", name of two peoples, one before the flood and one after the flood
Meaning: Nephilim -- "giants", name of two peoples, one before the flood and one after the flood
Strong's Concordance
giant Or nphil {nef-eel'}; from naphal; properly, a feller, i.e. A bully or tyrant -- giant.
see HEBREW naphal
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H5303. Nephilim
נְפִלִים noun masculine plural giants, according to ᵐ5 γίγαντες so ᵑ9 ᵑ6; הַנְּפִלִים Genesis 6:4 (J), מִןהַֿנְּפִלִים עֲנָק בְּנֵי הַנְּפִילִים Numbers 13:33 (JE); ᵐ5 omit וגו ׳בְּנֵי, and so Di; these words perhaps doublet, but already in ⅏, also ᵑ9 (etymology dubious; compare Aramaic נְפִילָא נִיפְלָא, 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).