Giants
   (1.) Heb. nephilim, meaning "violent" or "causing to fall" (Gen.
   6:4). These were the violent tyrants of those days, those who
   fell upon others. The word may also be derived from a root
   signifying "wonder," and hence "monsters" or "prodigies." In
   Num. 13:33 this name is given to a Canaanitish tribe, a race of
   large stature, "the sons of Anak." The Revised Version, in these
   passages, simply transliterates the original, and reads
   "Nephilim."
   
     (2.) Heb. rephaim, a race of giants (Deut. 3:11) who lived on
   the east of Jordan, from whom Og was descended. They were
   probably the original inhabitants of the land before the
   immigration of the Canaanites. They were conquered by
   Chedorlaomer (Gen. 14:5), and their territories were promised as
   a possession to Abraham (15:20). The Anakim, Zuzim, and Emim
   were branches of this stock.
   
     In Job 26:5 (R.V., "they that are deceased;" marg., "the
   shades," the "Rephaim") and Isa. 14:9 this Hebrew word is
   rendered (A.V.) "dead." It means here "the shades," the departed
   spirits in Sheol. In Sam. 21:16, 18, 20, 33, "the giant" is
   (A.V.) the rendering of the singular form _ha raphah_, which may
   possibly be the name of the father of the four giants referred
   to here, or of the founder of the Rephaim. The Vulgate here
   reads "Arapha," whence Milton (in Samson Agonistes) has borrowed
   the name "Harapha." (See also 1 Chron. 20:5, 6, 8; Deut. 2:11,
   20; 3:13; Josh. 15:8, etc., where the word is similarly rendered
   "giant.") It is rendered "dead" in (A.V.) Ps. 88:10; Prov. 2:18;
   9:18; 21:16: in all these places the Revised Version marg. has
   "the shades." (See also Isa. 26:14.)
   
     (3.) Heb. 'Anakim (Deut. 2:10, 11, 21; Josh. 11:21, 22; 14:12,
   15; called "sons of Anak," Num. 13:33; "children of Anak,"
   13:22; Josh. 15:14), a nomad race of giants descended from Arba
   (Josh. 14:15), the father of Anak, that dwelt in the south of
   Palestine near Hebron (Gen. 23:2; Josh. 15:13). They were a
   Cushite tribe of the same race as the Philistines and the
   Egyptian shepherd kings. David on several occasions encountered
   them (2 Sam. 21:15-22). From this race sprung Goliath (1 Sam.
   17:4).
   
     (4.) Heb. 'emin, a warlike tribe of the ancient Canaanites.
   They were "great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims" (Gen.
   14:5; Deut. 2:10, 11).
   
     (5.) Heb. Zamzummim (q.v.), Deut. 2:20 so called by the
   Amorites.
   
     (6.) Heb. gibbor (Job 16:14), a mighty one, i.e., a champion
   or hero. In its plural form (gibborim) it is rendered "mighty
   men" (2 Sam. 23:8-39; 1 Kings 1:8; 1 Chr. 11:9-47; 29:24.) The
   band of six hundred whom David gathered around him when he was a
   fugitive were so designated. They were divided into three
   divisions of two hundred each, and thirty divisions of twenty
   each. The captians of the thirty divisions were called "the
   thirty," the captains of the two hundred "the three," and the
   captain over the whole was called "chief among the captains" (2
   Sam. 23:8). The sons born of the marriages mentioned in Gen. 6:4
   are also called by this Hebrew name.