Anakim

American  

[an-uh-kim] / ˈæn ə kɪm /

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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Etymology

Origin of Anakim

From Hebrew ʿănāqīm “giants,” plural of ʿănāq

Example Sentences

However obscured the history may be, I think the purport of it is plainly this, that the Hellenes, and Phrygians were of the Nephelim or Anakim race.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Bryant, Jacob

The Anakim may therefore have been an Amorite tribe.

From Patriarchal Palestine by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

This Giant Discourager is a true giant, of pure Anakim blood, and he is in the habit of accompanying Mistake.

From Adventures in the Land of Canaan by Berry, Robert Lee

The heedless, complying, unjudging benevolence, for instance, that gave away all my gingerbread to the young Anakim of Parade Street, was one.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various

These terms were imported from the Anakim of Egypt and Canaan: but as the people, who brought them, were Orit�, and the sons of Urius, they must ultimately have come from Babylonia.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Bryant, Jacob