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Nephilim (nēfĭl`ĭm), in the Bible, Hebrew word of no known meaning, denoting peoples of gigantic stature with superhuman strength. The term is translated as "giants" in the Authorized Version. The Book of Genesis refers to Nephilim as the offspring of marriages between "daughters of humans" and "sons of God." See also Anak Anak , according to a folk tradition in the Bible, an ancestor of the Anakim, a tribe of giants inhabiting Hebron and its vicinity at the time of the Israelite conquest of Canaan. Arba is cited as Anak's father, and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai as his sons.
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No references found | Talking tigers, drumming bunnies and happy green men of nephilim proportions, obviously, are the birth things of imaginative ad men and women. According to Publishers Weekly, which reported yesterday that the deal was worth a sum in the high six figures, the book "follows a young nun in upstate New York who, in uncovering a correspondence between the former mother superior and Abigail Rockefeller, unwittingly reignites an ancient war between a society of angelologists (a group that studies angels) and the Nephilim (the monsterlike descendants of angels and humans). In other world, the same stars which come down on earth during their moving on or around the celestial planisphere (before returning to its top), hese stars are the elohim or the nephilim mentioned in the Bible. |
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