עֲנָקִי
anaki · Anakite
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6062 · appears 9 times in the Bible
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anaki (עֲנָקִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Anakite”.
A descendant of Anak, a people of very tall men who lived in Canaan.
How to say it
a·na·ki
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A people of very tall men who lived in Canaan.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 1:28
Where are we going up? Our brothers have melted our heart, saying, ‘A people greater and taller than we; cities great and fortified up to the heavens; and also we saw the sons of the Anakim there.’”
- Deuteronomy 2:10
(The Emim lived there formerly, a people great, numerous, and tall like the Anakim.
- Deuteronomy 2:11
They too were counted as Rephaim, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.
- Deuteronomy 2:21
a people great, numerous, and tall like the Anakim. But YHWH destroyed them from before them, and they dispossessed them and lived in their place,
- Deuteronomy 9:2
a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?”
- Joshua 11:21
And Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and from all the hill country of Israel; with their cities Joshua devoted them to destruction.
- Joshua 11:22
No Anakim were left in the land of the sons of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain.
- Joshua 14:12
And now, give me this hill country of which YHWH spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that Anakim are there, and cities, great and fortified. Perhaps YHWH will be with me, and I will dispossess them, just as YHWH spoke.”
- Joshua 14:15
Now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba; he was the greatest man among the Anakim. And the land became calm from war.