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נְפִיל

nefil · Nephilim

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5303 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

nefil (נְפִיל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Nephilim”.

A Hebrew word this translation leaves untranslated because its meaning is not known for certain. It occurs only in Genesis 6:4 and Numbers 13:33, where people of great stature are spoken of; so some Bibles put "giants".

How to say it

ne·fil

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

  1. Nephilim: very tall men of ancient times.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

  • Genesis 6:4

    The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of Elohim went in to the daughters of human beings and they bore children to them; they were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

  • Numbers 13:33

    And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are from the Nephilim); and we were in our own eyes like grasshoppers, and so we were in their eyes.”

And 1 more times.