Anakim – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Anakim
Anakim (
‘Anaqîm ) are a race of
giants descended from
Anak mentioned in the
Tanakh. They dwelt in the south of the land of
Canaan, near
Hebron (Gen. 23:2; Josh. 15:13). According to they inhabited the region afterwards known as
Edom and
Moab in the days of
Abraham. Their name may come from a Hebrew root meaning "strength" or "stature".
Anakim
(n. pl.)
Alt. of Anaks
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Anakim
[Other] Reputed giants inhabiting the territory on both sides of the Jordan before the coming of the Israelites. The Hebrew spies said they were mere grasshoppers in comparison with these Anakim (Josh. xv, 14; Judges i, 20; Numb. xiii, 33). Their progenitor was Anak.
Anak
Anak, Sons of; Anakim `anaq, `anaqim (Hebrew) An ancient race of giants in the Bible. When Moses sent Joshua to spy out the land of Canaan, the people seen were "men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight" (Numbers 13:32-3). Blavatsky comments that the giants of antiquity "lived and flourished one million rather than between three and four thousand years ago. The Anakim of Joshua . . . are thus a piece of Israelite fancy, unless indeed the people of Israel claim for Joshua an antiquity and origin in the Eocene, or at any rate in the Miocene age, and change the millenniums of their chronology into millions of years" (SD 2:340).
Anakim
(long-necked), a race of giants, descendants of Arba, (Joshua 15:13; 21:11) dwelling in the southern part of Canaan, and particularly at Hebron, which from their progenitor received the name of "city of Arba." Anak was the name of the race rather than that of an individual. (Joshua 14:15) The race appears to have been divided into three tribes or families, bearing the names Sheshai, Ahiman and Talmai. Though the war-like appearance of the Anakim had struck the Israelites with terror in the time of Moses, (Numbers 13:28; 9:2) they were nevertheless dispossessed by Joshua, (Joshua 11:21,22) and their chief city, Hebron, became the possession of Caleb. (Joshua 15:14; Judges 1:20) After this time they vanish from history.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) , by William Smith.
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