Anakim

American

[an-uh-kim] / ˈæn ə kɪm /

plural noun

(in the Bible) tall people or giants who lived in the southern part of ancient Palestine and were destroyed or scattered after the arrival of the Hebrews.

Etymology

Origin of Anakim

From Hebrew ʿănāqīm “giants,” plural of ʿănāq

Example Sentences

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Here, according to Hebrew story, giants once dwelt—the Anakim—whose father and chief was Arba; after this prince, Hebron was formerly called Kirjath-Arba.

From Project Gutenberg

For, truly, in those of the old discourses yet subsisting to us in print, the endless spinal column of divisions and subdivisions can be likened to nothing so exactly as to the vertebr� of the saurians, whence the theorist may conjecture a race of Anakim proportionate to the withstanding of these other monsters.

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The translators of our Revised Version are ashamed of these mythical personages as being too suggestive of Jack and the Beanstalk, so they have substituted Anakim for giants.

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Our engraving on page 99 gives some idea of "the Anakim of pines."

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The ten were full of doubts, and they looked through their doubts, and their doubts magnified the Anakim.

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