Hebrew n--tg · H5303
נְפִיל
nephilnef-eel'
Nephilim
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nᵉphîyl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5303is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5303
properly, a feller, i.e. a bully or tyrant
The King James renders it: giant.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nephil is rendered "Nephilim". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 6:4The 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 old, men of renown.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
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 old, men of renown.
Genesis 6:4הַנְּפִלִ֞ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the Nephilim3
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נְפִיסִים | Nephisim | Nephisim | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַנְּפִילִ֛ים1
- הַנְּפִלִ֞ים1
- הַנְּפִלִ֑ים1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)3HTd/Ngmpa
Genesis
one use
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 old, men of renown.
- הַנְּפִלִ֞יםhanefilimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Nephilim
Numbers
two uses
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!”
- הַנְּפִילִ֛יםhanefilimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Nephilim
- הַנְּפִלִ֑יםhanefilimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Nephilim
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.