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Anakim

[an-uh-kim]

plural noun

  1. (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.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of Anakim1

From Hebrew ʿănāqīm “giants,” plural of ʿănāq
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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.

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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 Giant Anakim came down from Jupiter, bringing Gold and his comrades, and all the Spirits of the astral worlds who had followed him, and they all said, 'We will be thine for seven hundred years.'

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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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