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Numbers 13:33

in Numbers 13

We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

KJV

And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

This verse in Numbers 13

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

There we saw the giants - נפלים nephilim. It is evident that they had seen a robust, sturdy, warlike race of men, and of great stature; for the asserted fact is not denied by Joshua or Caleb. Tales of gigantic men are frequent in all countries, but they are generally of such as have lived in times very remote from those in which such tales are told.

This site's exposition

We even saw the Nephilim there

The ten report how they looked to themselves, like grasshoppers in our own sight. Then they assert how they looked to others, a claim about another man's mind.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

20 , Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? "Nay, and so we were in their sight; they looked upon us with as much scorn and disdain as we did upon them with fear and trembling." So that upon the whole matter they gave it in as their judgment, We are not able to go up against them (

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And there we saw the giants,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

They brought a bunch of grapes with them, and some other of the fruits of the land, as a proof of the extraordinary goodness of the country. Probably they furnished themselves with these fruits when they were leaving the country and returning. The cluster of grapes was so large and so heavy that they hung it upon a bar, and carried it between two of them,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak--The name is derived from the son of Arba, a great man among the Arabians (Jos 15:14), who probably obtained his appellation from wearing a splendid collar or chain round his neck, as the word imports. The epithet "giant" evidently refers here to stature.

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Modern Voices1 voice

A commentator

Charles Capps

1934–2014

Fear Is Faith in Reverse (Capps Ministries Monthly Teaching) · Written before 2014.

proposed

It seems that God calls an evil report anything that doesn't agree with His Word.

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְשָׁ֣םand there

    veshamH8033 →834 times

  • רָאִ֗ינוּwe saw

    rainuH7200 →1300 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַנְּפִילִ֛יםthe Nephilim

    hanefilimH5303 →

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] descendants of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • עֲנָ֖קAnak

    ʾanakH6061 →9 times

  • מִן־[were] from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • הַנְּפִלִ֑יםthe Nephilim

    hanefilimH5303 →

  • וַנְּהִ֤יand we were

    vanehiH1961 →3559 times

  • בְעֵינֵ֙ינוּ֙in own eyes our

    veeineinuH5869 →887 times

  • כַּֽחֲגָבִ֔יםlike grasshoppers

    kachagavimH2284 →

  • וְכֵ֥ןand thus

    vekhenH3651 →771 times

  • הָיִ֖ינוּwe were

    hayinuH1961 →3559 times

  • בְּעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃in view their

    beeineihemH5869 →887 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 6:4

    The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of…

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 17:4

      Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in height,

    • Deuteronomy 3:11

      (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

    • 2 Samuel 21:15–22

      Once again the Philistines waged war against Israel, and David and his servants went down and fought against the Philistines; but David became exhausted.

    • Deuteronomy 2:20–21

      (That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.

  • Through

    Isaiah 40:22

    He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 8:27

      I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,

    • Isaiah 42:5

      This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to…

    • Isaiah 66:1

      This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?

    • Psalms 104:2

      He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Spies Return from the Promised Land — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Spies Return from the Promised Land — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Charles Capps, Fear Is Faith in Reverse (Capps Ministries Monthly Teaching); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.