Anakim

[ an-uh-kim ]

plural noun

tall people or giants who lived in southern Palestine and were destroyed or scattered after the arrival of the Hebrews. Numbers 13:28, 31; Deuteronomy 2:21; 9:2.

Origin of Anakim

From Hebrew ʿănāqīm “giants,” plural of ʿănāq

The Anakim seemed well pleased to find these dealers, with whom they had so often traded, thus inmates of their camp.
Sarchedon | G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
The Anakim glanced doubtfully at each other; their chief pointed to the mare from which he had dismounted, and shook his head.
Sarchedon | G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
He too marked the overwhelming charge of the Anakim, and its effect on that solid mass against which its might was hurled.
Sarchedon | G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
The Anakim soon recognised him as the companion of their leader, when first she appeared among their tents and they knew her not.
Sarchedon | G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
Than these mighty vegetable Anakim, nothing, says a naturalist, is more imperfectly known in botany.
The Desert World | Arthur Mangin

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