עֲנָקִי
a.na.qi
“Anakite”
Definition
an Anakite or descendant of Anak
patronymically from H6061 (עָנָק);
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun
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Occurrences
עֲנָקִי appears 9 times in the Old Testament.
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Key Passages
Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”
(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.
Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.
They were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place,
The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”
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