Giants

Nephilim giants, the Anakim, were in Canaan when Joshua led the Israelites out of the desert.

The Anakim are described as "great and tall," with the proverbial saying, "Who can stand before the children of Anak?" — a phrase that had become a byword for an enemy no one believed could be beaten.

Joshua cuts off the Anakim from the hill country, but the text carefully notes a remnant survived in three Philistine cities: Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod. Gath is the city Goliath later comes from.

Several more sons of the giant in Gath fall to David's men, including one "of great stature" with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot. The passage explicitly names them "born unto the giant in Gath."

The KJV's "dead things" translates the Hebrew Rephaim. Many modern translations render it "the dead" or "the departed spirits," who tremble in the waters beneath. The same word used for the giant clans also names the shades of the dead in the underworld.

A third giant clan, the Zamzummim, again measured against the Anakim standard. The verse also records that the Lord destroyed them before the Ammonites, showing divine judgment against these clans wasn't limited to Israel's own conquest but extended to other nations clearing their own land.

Goliath of Gath, the giant champion of the Philistines. The Masoretic Text gives his height as "six cubits and a span" (about 9 feet 9 inches), while the older Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint read "four cubits and a span" (about 6 feet 9 inches), the reading most textual scholars favor.

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Og king of Bashan's bed size

A clan of giants dwelling in Canaan, descended from Anak, feared by the Israelite spies.

An ancient people of giant stature east of the Jordan, of whom King Og of Bashan was the last remnant.

The giant king of Bashan defeated by Israel, described as the last remnant of the Rephaim.

Giant Tribes in the Bible

The Nephilim are the powerful, giant figures mentioned in Genesis 6:4 and Numbers 13:33, whose name is linked to the Hebrew verb “to fall” and has been interpreted as “giants” in ancient texts.

A general term for the oversized clans and warriors of the ancient world tied to the Nephilim bloodline.

Book of Enoch (1 Enoch): an ancient Jewish text attributed to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah, and the fullest ancient account of the Watchers.

Book of Jubilees: an ancient Jewish retelling of Genesis and Exodus organized in periods of forty‑nine years called jubilees, dated by scholars to the second century BC.

The entry explains a theory that fallen angels returned after the Flood, causing a second incursion of Nephilim in Canaan, as presented in CK Quarterman's book The Watchers Fallen.

The judgment of the fallen Watchers describes how God bound these angels in darkness, reserving them for fire on the great day, with specific sentences for leaders like Azazel and Semjaza.

The document explains how Augustine’s rejection of the angelic interpretation of Genesis 6 shifted Western Christianity from an early‑church view of angelic Watchers and Nephilim to the Sethite view, leading to the decline of the Book of Enoch in the West.

Tamim: the Hebrew word in Genesis 6:9 meaning complete, whole, or without blemish, used of Noah as “perfect in his generations.”

If the Flood judged the Nephilim, why do the Anakim and Rephaim appear afterward? Three explanations, weighed.

The Hebrew Bible never says whether the Nephilim could have children. Second Temple Jewish texts fill that silence with two contradicting answers.

A look at Ohio's Serpent Mound, its uncanny astronomical precision, the giant skeletons once reported nearby, and what the effigy's open-mouthed serpent may really be guarding against.

This post walks the math behind 1 Enoch's giant and checks it against the tallest giant the Hebrew Bible actually measures. It covers cubit standards, manuscript variants, and why a 450-foot being could not stand on its own legs.

Did you know Goliath wasn't the only giant in Gath? Second Samuel 21 reveals a family of giants, including Goliath's brother Lahmi, who faced David’s men in battle.

If the Flood judged the Nephilim, why do the Anakim and Rephaim appear afterward? Three explanations, weighed.