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== Hebrew Bible translation ==
== Has anyone else ever noticed this? ==
If you look at the way the text is written, it basically just says "the sons of god did it with the daughters of man, and the nephilim were on the earth in those days" technically there's no causative relationship between those two. It might even just be saying "back in the time of heroes, the sons of god got it on with the daughters of man" . are there any, like, sources from biblical scholars regarding this? Not that it would solve anything, it'd actually raise even more questions if they were unrelated... <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/75.73.70.113|75.73.70.113]] ([[User talk:75.73.70.113|talk]]) 00:57, 4 November 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


Shouldn't the NJPS translation available at https://www.sefaria.org.il/Genesis.6?lang=en&aliyot=0 be referred to? [[User:Mcljlm|Mcljlm]] ([[User talk:Mcljlm|talk]]) 03:27, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
Agreed, there is no linguistic link in English, they are two different statements. Perhaps this depends on the punctuation having a different meaning in Greek, Latin, or Hebrew. The English translation says that the "sons of god did it with the daughters of man", and after a comma says that "and the nephilim were on the earth in those days". [[User:BruceTutty|BruceTutty]] ([[User talk:BruceTutty|talk]]) 09:00, 1 January 2016 (UTC)


== Norse Mythology ==
Yes, there is a scholarly source that makes exactly that observation--and promotes that as the correct reading! It is Keil and Delitzsch's 10 vol Commentary on the Old Testament. I think the summary statement at the top of this article needs to be changed because it endorses only one interpretation--the most popular--but the most incorrect! The Genesis text does not support the conclusion that the Nephilim were the offspring of the mentioned union. The summary statement at the top of the article should simply indicate that the Nephilim poorly-understood figures that are mentioned in the Bible, particularly in Genesis. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/128.177.110.46|128.177.110.46]] ([[User talk:128.177.110.46#top|talk]]) 18:13, 25 July 2018 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


The mythological Abrahamic and Norse giants, respectively the nephilim and jötnar, seem like they may be connected, due to the striking phonic
It is thought by some that the Neanderthals or ''Homo heidelbergensis'' include the Nephilim.[[Special:Contributions/137.118.99.79|137.118.99.79]] ([[User talk:137.118.99.79|talk]]) 02:43, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
similarities between the terms Nephilim and Niflheim / Niflhel. Is there any reliable evidence of any connection between the two, and is this similarity noteworthy?
[[User:B. A. Beder|B. A. Beder]] ([[User talk:B. A. Beder|talk]]) 01:22, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
:*It's only noteworthy if someone other than you has also noted it and has had their work published in an independent reliable verifiable source somewhere. The mere semblance of similarity, however obvious it may appear to you, is not a reason for drawing a conclusion on Wikipedia. ''That'' would constitute [[WP:OR]]. [[User:A loose necktie|A loose necktie]] ([[User talk:A loose necktie|talk]]) 11:40, 8 May 2021 (UTC)


== Numbers and Ezekiel ==
== Greek translations ==


When discussing the choice of the Greek word 'gigantes' the article makes the claim that 'The Heb. nefilim means literally "the fallen ones" [...]'. This seems to directly contradict the Etymology section which claims that there is no agreed-upon translation of nefilim. I have no expertise to make this call, but I would suspect the Greek translation explanation needs editing.
As I said in my edit summary, we don't clarify whether there is any relationship between the use of the name in Numbers and its use in Genesis.
[[User:ColoradoBrownstain|ColoradoBrownstain]] ([[User talk:ColoradoBrownstain|talk]]) 14:42, 26 May 2021 (UTC)


== NEPHILIM ==
"[[Claus Westermann|Westermann]] (1974:511-512) points out that in Gen 6:4 the Nephilim were identified with the ‘heroes that were of old, warriors of renown’ and that there was nothing mythical here. But the Nephilim of 4a, in the light of Ezek 32:27, are clearly mythical. He concludes that two narrative conclusions were blended in 6:4, one following the mythical line, the other simply the etiological line. The thrust of the mythical line was the telling of the story of the transgression of the divine order which ensured the separation of gods and men in accordance with the theme of similar stories in the primeval narrative (cp. Gen 3 and 11). Later traditions ‘historicized’ the Nephilim and transformed them either into the legendary precursors of the Israelites in Canaan or elaborated the tradition of fallen angelic beings who were actively engaged in stirring mankind into rebellion against divine authority." fromD the Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible By Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, Pieter Willem van der Horst.[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yCkRz5pfxz0C&pg=PA620&dq=Nephilim%E2%80%8E+mythical&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjz1t-6-6zaAhWlLMAKHQQzBy4Q6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=Nephilim%E2%80%8E%20mythical&f=false] [[User:Doug Weller|<span style="color:#070">Doug Weller</span>]] [[User talk:Doug Weller|talk]] 10:31, 9 April 2018 (UTC)


Try to translate this in Albania lenguage .. Nephilim in Albanian - Në Fillim .. [[Special:Contributions/95.107.191.5|95.107.191.5]] ([[User talk:95.107.191.5|talk]]) 12:34, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
== info ==
{{hat|[[WP:TLDR]] from the Greek twin of Zecharia Sitchen}}
Ξυπνάτε ρεεεε


== Etymology section to be expanded upon ==
Here is in english a short summary of Dimosthenis Liakopoulos trilogies from why and how they live amongst us:


While the information there is interesting and valuable, there is no actual etymology present. It should be expanded upon. —[[User:Polynilium|Polynilium]] ([[User talk:Polynilium|talk]]) 14:18, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
"Before many billions of years, what we call "graceful and omnipotent God" mainly because of the joy that is given from life itself and the existence to every being, created the Angels (spirits) and the Elohim (fire flames).
Built the angelic creatures other intangible (spirits) and other with energic body (fire flame).
The Angels carry the message of God while the Elohim are the functionaries of God by performing in practice the will.
From the beginning of creation, there is the meaning of existence and rightfully the meaning of non existence, since the universe that was created is essentially the universe of opposites.
Because it seems God didn't wanted the abolition of the existences and the transition of them to a state of non existence, decided to create the human and assign him one ancient mission, which was nothing else than to ensure the existence of the whole creation that God would had created especially for him.
After "announcing" the creation of the material universe, the archangel Samael from the genus Ofanim, which had been designated as responsible for the harmony (the so called musical harmony) of the universe, when he learned that humans would be created, beings with spirit and body and capability of evolvement to reach the divine and perform the purpose for which they were created, disagreed with the decision of God to entrust this task to humans and defected from God and made great war in the universe having with his side the Angels who agreed with him the so called Nahrben (demons).
The final intervention of the first Elohim, the first and most ancient creation of God brought Samael "tethered" before God.
Then Samael deducted from the grace of God and was given only two powers. One to the world of spirits and one to the world of matter.
In the world of spirits was given the power to approach anyone he wants and say whatever he wants (to put thoughts).
In the world of matter was given the power to interfere in the atoms of matter. What we call atom and is so small that it is invisible to the eye. Looks like a small solar system. In the center instead of the sun is the core and around instead of the wandering planets are the wandering electrons at various distances. The power of Samael is to expel from the atom the most remote, the last electron, and it would be fair to do so. This "self explanatory" process to nowadays is the cause of electricity existance and was to disturb the material universe. Initially Samael didn't had the ability to activate it because the universe belonged to human who didn't had done something wrong, so that his universe, his "home" essentially, to suffer any damage from Samael. When Samael convinced humans that they can, like him, play the "gods" and exist without the God but to "exist" with the non "God" the humans deducted from Paradise (the third sphere of creation) and lost their powers that had over their world and activated Samael's power to expel the last electron.
So humans lost their energic incorruptible bodies, since Samael had the power of damaging them not only spiritually but also physically. Then humans with their corruptible biological bodies were subject to the laws of evolution of species.
Around 40.000 B.C. two hundred and one of the Elohim, the angelic creatures with the energic bodies, deducted after the influence of Samael, transformed into human beings and joined the humans who created the genus of Titans-Gigades or as they called themselves Nefelim.
The leader of these angelic creatures, that were eventually persuaded by Samael and opposed to the mission that had been assigned to them by God was Rahvel Semieza from the genus of Elohim.
The first join was done to the largest for that time city of humans, who were not as many "think" residents of the caves.
The city was called Aradis, which meant the city of valley.
It extended east of mount Olympus, where now is Katerini until Thessaloniki since Thermaikos bay didn't exist.
The first Nefelim were of two types.
The anthropomorphic cyan Giants that were born from humans and the batmorphic Nahsramon that were born from Lilith Lamasthu (the abomination of the revelation), who was the first female human that was created and alone deducted from Paradise because she wanted to kill and Adam and for her replacement Eve was created (which means Life).
The first "gods" were the deducted Elohim themselves, the second generation of "gods" were their children the Nefelim and the subsequent generations of beings that were also named "gods" were the monstrous filthy genera of beings that were created by cloning the "divine" DNA and mixing it with various animals, so were created the so called filthy genera to fight in wars, the Satyrs, the Griffins, the Minotaurs, the Reptilians, the Centaurs, the Cyclopes, the Hecatonchires and so on.
The Nefelim according to all the ancient texts of all peoples and all religions were beings "immortal" and omnipotent. They were only killed by copper that was strong poison for them. The Nefelim became the biggest scourge ever faced by human, because initially they ate the toil of the humans and then the humans themselves who were for the defiled and genus of slaves and food of the "gods" who fought each other for power of the fake, virtual world.
The technology at that time reached to very high levels and humans lived in a world technologically very developed, but suffered because for the "gods" they were nothing else than "consumables" (food) or Goim as they called them.
Around 33.000 B.C. was created the caste of Zeus that descended from the cyan Giants and saved humans.
Zeus created the genus of El that were philanthropists and had their base to Olympus in the country that now is called Ellas and was called then El-Las (which means base of the El).
The El fought in Titanomahia-Gigadomahia against all the other "gods" and defeated and expelled them from the face of Earth and closed them to Tartara, the copper hollow interior of the Earth that was created by Elohim El Sedai.
The Titanomahia-Gigadomahia was fought on the Earth, on the Moon, on the Mars and on other worlds.
The governance of the El followed which was completely different to the humans, who although were vassals to the new "gods" the El, but were not slaves and above all food of the "gods".
For this reason Zeus is mentioned in ancient texts as savior Zeus while the El as benefactors of the humans.
Then around 23.000 B.C., the El led by Apollon took instruction from God and left Earth for the constellation of Sirius, but some, who were led by Zeus and stayed on Earth were punished because they wanted another millennial prolongation of their power and their leaders headed by Zeus were closed inside crystal capsules and confined in the depths of the second highest mountain in the world, the so called mountain without name, symbolically called K-2, in Karakoram, north of Himalayas.
The humans continued their lives with technology remnant of the era of the "gods", who after their removal from the Earth left their technology heritage to humans.
Around 10.000 B.C. - 9.600 B.C. according to Platon, the Ellines who were descendants of the El (El-Lin which means the one who lives with the thinking of the El), fought with the children of darkness of the Nefelim, the Atlanteans.
The Atlanteans were defeated and vanished, but the whole planet returned to stone age and from there begins the paleolithic period, then the neolithic period, then the copper age and so on.
Since then, after that war, the events that occurred enabled the Nefelim to have tens of thousands watchers in the form of human beings that "live amongst us". They oversee the events so that the humans who have the Earth's surface never get in the interior and destroy them.
Nowadays, the technology of the Nefelim is greatly superior to humans. But there was a time when human technology could destroy them.
So they were given the power to "live amongst us", affecting from the background the lives of the humans and are separated into two major brotherhoods.
The Black brotherhood (old world order) that ruled undisturbed until about 1.750 A.D. controlling puppet kings and the White brotherhood (new world order) that from 1.750 A.D. started to control everything, controlling the governments of pseudodemocracies (since the so called democratic governments are a global joke and never work for the interest of human populations) which replaced the governments of kings, which also expelled or turned into puppets.
After 1.900 A.D. the White brotherhood decided to gradually reintroduce the technology of the "gods" to control more effectively the increasing world population of the humans that they want to reduce.
That presence of the Nefelim took advantage the deducted archangel Samael (devil) to implement the infernal plan of world domination over the earth under the reign of his son leadership the antichrist.
The plan of his is expressed by the 25 protocols of iniquity.
To protect the helpless humans Elohim El Sedai created a control system that controls the entire solar system. The plan of Samael that is based largely on the existence and effects of electricity is almost complete.
That plan, needless to say, is applied in absolute secrecy, since the existence of the Nefelim and the El has become since ancient years a legend and the legend became a myth and with the myths they say only the mindless are interested.
Nowadays people consider that for all around them are responsible the governments that supposedly govern states and supposedly are elected by "free" elections.
Those who consider that they understand a few things more, consider that the governments are pressured by the so called "strong" countries, such as America, Germany, Russia and so on.
The more advanced consider that behind all hides the international capital that has no country, but governs all the world's governments.
The conspiracy theorists consider that behind the capital are hiding the Hebrews who want to dominate in this complicated world and bring the Zionist dictatorship, since they believe that their Yahweh has promised them this futile world. So they took all banks, all multinational firms, companies, all governments, all United Nation, all NATO, all Hollywood, all media, all educational system and all administrative mechanisms of religions, promoting the plan of their global sovereignty.
I ask the conspiracy theorists. What do you consider most probable? the Hebrews to be such intellects and so superintelligent and have achieved something like that? or behind all is hiding someone that is immortal and having millions of helpers around the world and trying for thousands of years to set up the global control and the global state without having the stress of timing restrictions as we humans have?
Anyway all have their great plans either they want, either they don't want they will do the plan of the God in the end."
{{hab}}


== It's clear that the reference to them in Numbers 13 was part of an exaggerated/false report given by the spies sent to scout out Canaan ==
== info ==
{{hat|[[WP:TLDR]] from the Greek twin of Zecharia Sitchen}}
Ξυπνάτε ρεεεε


The reading is clear to me that these spies said "the land devours people and there's nephilim!" in hopes of avoiding war. God punishes them for this in Numbers 14.
From Dimosthenis Liakopoulos trilogies, why and how they live amongst us:


It is not a reliable account that nephilim existed post-flood. [[Special:Contributions/73.150.209.138|73.150.209.138]] ([[User talk:73.150.209.138|talk]]) 11:58, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
The Nefelim tribes are:


== Fallen angels cannot be "sons of God" ==
The Slaveh tribe (these ones are as devils with "human" body).


Without this making God their father. That is blasphemy of the worst kind. https://biblehub.com/matthew/12-27.htm And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your people drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.
The Nahsramon tribe and the Bahomeh tribe (these ones have bat wings and "human" body and head, alias Batmen).


<sup>49</sup> Jesus, pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. <sup>50</sup> For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_12:49%E2%80%9350
The Valah tribe (these ones have goat feet and head and "human" body).
Fallen angels/demons are those who rejected God's commands.

In Job 1:6, it says on a certain day the sons of God assembled before Him and Satan was there >also<. That means Satan is also not a son of God. If Satan is the chief of fallen angels then they must not be God's sons, either.
The Narudh tribe (these ones have goat feet and "human" body and head, alias Satyrs).
<sup>6</sup> Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan<sup>[[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job%201%3A6-22&version=ESV#fen-ESV-12876a a]]</sup> also came among them. [[Special:Contributions/2600:1700:B9C1:20C0:110A:15CB:ADF1:22E2|2600:1700:B9C1:20C0:110A:15CB:ADF1:22E2]] ([[User talk:2600:1700:B9C1:20C0:110A:15CB:ADF1:22E2|talk]]) 16:56, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

The Lahmeh tribe (these ones have wings, lion body and eagle head, alias Griffins).

The Losdveh tribe (these ones have lion head and "human" body).

The Maltseh tribe (these ones have wolf head and "human" body, alias Lycanthires).

The Kahreh tribe (these ones have bull head and "human" body, alias Minotaurs).

The Kahsnah tribe (these ones have lizard head and "human" body, alias Reptilians).

The Saherneh tribe (these ones have eagle head and "human" body).

The Mashraveh tribe (these ones have wings, bull body and "human" head, alias Sphinxes).

The Revah tribe (these ones have horse body and "human" hands and head, alias Centaurs).

The Dusveh tribe (these ones are as "humans" but they have one eye, alias Cyclopes).

The Zashradeh tribe (these ones are as "humans" but they have six hands, alias Hecatonchires).

The Kasrabah tribe (these ones are as "humans" but their head is to their waist).

The Vasraneh tribe (these ones are as "humans" but they have grey body, alias Greys the so called grey "aliens").

The Kronian tribes that have the Ran tribe, the Hebre tribe and the cyan Giants tribe (these ones are as "humans").

And the "new" tribes of the Nefelim that combine biological and mechanical parts are:

The Kasponeh (they are as insects with six legs).

The Kalhak (they are as locusts with eight legs and bat head).

The Bararna (they are divided into non flying and flying, the non flying ones are of two types, the ones that are as brontosaurus with four legs and the ones with two legs while the flying ones are as reptiles with wings).

The Darpasah (they are as dogs with four legs).

All these tribes are separated into seventy two kings with seventy two kingdoms as much as the seventy two portals to Tartara (hollow Earth).

They are to Earth since fourty two thousand years.
{{hab}}

== Related Terms ==

The section with the heading Related Terms reads:

In the Hebrew Bible, there are a number of other words which, like "nephilim", are sometimes translated as "giants":

Anunnaki
Emim
Rephaim
Anakim
Gibborim

However, to the best of my knowledge, after searching various online versions of the Bible, the word Annunaki doesn't appear anywhere in the Hebrew scriptures, including apocryphal sources. If that's the case, then this section is misleading for suggesting that Annunaki appears in the Bible. I just wanted to discuss before editing the section in case I'm missing or misunderstanding something.

Also, I notice that the two posts above mine, from Ξυπνάτε ρεεεε (Greek for Wake uuuuup!), seem to be peddling some bizarre fringe theories from someone who's the Greek equivalent of a televangelist. Does this stuff get moderated?

~~Mpaniello~~
:{{ping|Mpaniello}} I've removed Anunnaki, as it doesn't belong there. I've closed the above sections. They're [[WP:FRINGE]], but one could imagine that that individual is trying (in their own way) to suggest changes to the article (even if those changes will never happen), which is why I didn't just remove them.
:Also, please sign your posts with four tildes (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>) without sticking your name in the middle of them. [[User:Ian.thomson|Ian.thomson]] ([[User talk:Ian.thomson|talk]]) 17:35, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks so much, Ian, and sorry for the signature error, still getting the hang of things! [[User:Mpaniello|Mpaniello]] ([[User talk:Mpaniello|talk]]) 21:41, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

== Now they're super-heros.. wait, WHAT? ==
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In the section relating the Sons of God to fallen angels, this rather bizarre statement can be found:
From this parallelism it could be inferred that the sons of God are understood as some superhuman beings.[21]

Never mind that the concept of being divine beings has NO relation to any sort of human subspecies.. it is UTTERLY out of place under a section making the point of the Sons of God being fallen angels.

Just to be certain that it wasn't a misquote, I went to the original article to verify. It actually IS a misquote, but the author of the original article is making various wild suppositions, so personally, I would just strike the comment entirely.

Note that the preceding comment about the fallen angels having male anatomy but being of godly origin is almost equally out of place, as angels in general are sexless in the first place. This statement should be tagged and just deleted entirely unless someone can show how the fallen angels were granted the ability to HAVE a sex and procreate, possibly sourced in the apocrypha, catechisms or etc.

Finally, I would like to note that the CreationWiki article on the old Hebrew term Bene Ha Elohim does a MUCH MUCH better job of explaining the Sons of God as being of divine origin than the one here does.
http://www.creationwiki.org/Bene_Elohim

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Below I noted various, ridiculously hotheaded and lengthy, discussions on whether or not Nephilim are mentioned in Sumerian texts. They in fact ARE mentioned. As I recall, the actual term (Nephilim) translates almost directly, in actual fact. The problem is that THAT research predates the internet and quick access to questionable information. It also predates the modern understanding of the 'Anunnaki' entirely, and is actually unrelated. That's why the Anunnaki 'researcher' was unable to locate the source of the information readily. I believe that with a bit of ACTUAL research and effort, either author of the diatribe below could have found the source information faster than the lengthy argument took.

However, I just checked the Wikipedia page on the Anunnaki.. and it begins with the wild statement that the Anunnaki were universally recognized in ALL of the ancient pantheons. HORSE MANURE!! In the first place, even the word itself Anunnaki is of questionable translation, let alone it's loosely interpreted translation of events. In the second place, I would LOVE to hear somebody squarely place an alien race in to the middle of the Akkadian legends. Talk about a square peg in a round hole. Somebody is smoking some serious crack.

Ok so, on a related note, the guy with the OPINION that Sumerian mythology precedes the Bible.. WRONG. The written Bible predates every other derivative work on the planet (for obvious reasons other than academic). Even Baal is an obvious bastardization of the Cain story. The inverse is ludicrous. Note that while we may have reason to doubt that Ethiopian translations are cannon, we CAN relatively safely respect their records relating to the oldest written copies of the bible.. which as I said, predates every other pantheon in existence, including Baal and even archaic Goddess worship (Wicca).

Wicca is commonly recognized as the worlds oldest religion simply by the merit that in the days of Adam and Eve, nobody actually WORSHIPPED God. God walked the earth in the days of the garden and after. The first inkling of worship is when Cain and Able both (spontaneously) decided to offer God gifts out of thanks (not worship). The rest, as they say.. is history. ^^

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Finally, the reason I came here in the first place.. I've run across an article stating that the....

Never mind, I found more inconsistencies on the Ell page. I think I answered my own question while postulating on that Talk page (still curious why 3,000 ells isn't mentioned on THIS page):


Someone do some quick math for me and figure out how tall a hominid 3,000 ells would be?

Uh-huh. I just saw some other article from someone (obviously using this as their source) claiming that the Nephilim MUST have been 2.4 miles tall. I didn't check his actual math, but based on this interpretation, I think I know where he got that idea.

First off, the cubit and ell were confused and cross referenced in definition in medieval times. THAT'S why you have wildly different measurements dating from the old testament compared to relatively modern interpretations. As correctly mentioned below, the term was generally defined by whichever local monarch carried the biggest stick (not a pun for ruler).

In addition, there is a large amount of confusion about HOW the length of an ell was determined in ancient times. It's obvious that no one here is privy to that information. It is commonly understood that the length of an ell was measured by forming the shape an 'L' with some joint of the fingers, wrist or elbow. Obviously, it would be impossible to get a measurement of 45" using this methodology, without detaching some part of your arm to do it. Now maybe I'm over-simplifying the matter (on the other hand my best guess is as good as anyone elses' guess), but my best L is made by using my thumb and forefinger to make the traditional 'Loser' hand gesture. (Ok, honestly, I'm recalling a pre-internet based scholarly exposition on the topic which used this same modality). The distance from my thumb to forefinger in this position is (oddly) six inches, precisely. (I am 6' 2" tall.) Let's adjust for Old testament men being significantly shorter (4' 6" to 5') that brings us to 4.5" or 5". (Hmm, 4.5" verses 45".. HMM..) I'm going to guess that human nature hasn't changed in the last few millennia, and that the king was the tall handsome burly guy.. so we'll use 5" as the 'kings measure'.

5" x 3,000 (ells) = 15,000 inches = 1,250 feet = still ludicrous.

Now I can't recall the logic of it, but since they can categorically throw the 5" figure out, they had some logic to use the width of a finger next. They had some logic to relate the width of the finger to a centimeter, so I'll just follow that..

1cm x 3,000 = 3,000cm / 2.54 = 1182 in. = 98.5 ft. = implausible, but POSSIBLE

Personally I always pictured the Nephilim as somewhere in the neighborhood of 15-20 ft. tall. Largely due to David vs. Goliath legends I suppose. HOWEVER, the author in question compares the description of the Nephilim in the various biblical references to the description of the titans.. which is PERFECTLY in line with this! Everyone on the planet pictures the Kraken as a giant squid, even BEFORE modern science had FOUND a giant squid! (Untwist that logic, I'll wait. ;) )

THEN I noticed an ASTOUNDING correlation. Let's look at the Hebrew passage:
The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, | | and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

The place where I separated the two statements is where it is commonly noted that the one does not NECESSARILY relate to the other.

Now the next statement:

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.

WUT..? This appears to be describing three different groups of people.. unless we transliterate Nephilim to the literal giants.. THEN we can read it as describing two different races..

And there we saw the Giants, the sons of Anak, || who come of the (old?) Giants; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.[12]

I hereby offer the postulation that the ONE race of Giants, the SONS of Anak, commonly referred to as Nephalim (the Titans) were in the order of 100 feet tall. I offer that there was a SECOND race of Giants, the Anak of which Goliath was a party, in the order of twenty feet tall. This race of giants aligns with various other global cultural myths of giants around the world.. including the slightly ridiculous legend of the Annunaki.. if you translated it less loosely to mean 'aliens from some far fetched planet on an orbit around the sun which couldn't support life'. :D

Is it following the scientific method precisely, well no, but it's logical without any far stretches of the imagination. Personally, I think the logic flows in a BEAUTIFUL ways with enough coincidences to make it a serious possibility by definition alone, let alone what appears to be some next-level genius on my part.

Ok, I'm done here. That's my epiphany of the day. Take it for what it is, that's all I ask. :)

...Ok, one final final thought.. did the Greek empire ever reach far enough that we could posit that Mt. Olympus was originally located in Israel? Ok, NOW I think I'm done making epiphanies for the day. :)
[[User:Crogonint|Crogonint]] ([[User talk:Crogonint|talk]]) 23:29, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

:Holy cow. I do not even know how to respond to this wall of text. Maybe if you slowed down and suggested some specific way to improve the article we could get somewhere. Maybe. [[User:Alephb|Alephb]] ([[User talk:Alephb|talk]]) 00:21, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
::I kind of doubt it. Any way we can get an admin to box this off so it doesn't take up the whole talk page?--[[User:Ermenrich|Ermenrich]] ([[User talk:Ermenrich|talk]]) 02:07, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

SERIOUSLY?? My first few points were rather basic and clear cut. That's why I put them at the top. Just exactly how is it too difficult to distinguish between an angelic being and a super-human one? Absolutely ludicrous.

The rest of my initial points are just as remedial. Claiming that you can't follow them is revealing volumes about your character.

If you can't follow my logic in the latter half, I can't fault you there. Occasionally my genius even surprises me. ^^

I won't even bother complaining about the 'incomprehensible rant' label. Any sufficiently advanced technology could be labeled as magic. Similarly, I'll just assume that you're acting like heathens when you label my (rather short, actually) explanation as 'incomprehensible'.

Whatever.

Just trying to help you knowledgeable authors provide correct and discernible information that the masses can comprehend. If you're not capable of that.. perhaps you should just step down.
[[User:Crogonint|Crogonint]] ([[User talk:Crogonint|talk]]) 19:09, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
:{{ping|Crogonint}} "Superhuman" means "more powerful than human." The term predates "superhero" by a good bit. Your post appears to be a mixture of [[Stream of consciousness]] and possibly copied dialogue (with no indication of who is saying what). Please expand your vocabulary and be more concise instead of rambling and blaming others.
:Wikis (including Wikipedia) are not accepted as [[WP:RS|reliable sources]] because they are [[WP:USERG|user generated]] (not professionally published). Creationwiki would qualify as a [[WP:FRINGE]] source.
:[[WP:NOTFORUM|Wikipedia does not engage in original research]]. All we do is [[WP:CITE|cite]], [[Abstract (summary)|summarize]], and [[paraphrase]] [[WP:RS|professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources]]. [[WP:NOTFORUM|The talk page is for article improvement, not general discussion or tangents that are only apparently relevant to the person posting them]]. [[User:Ian.thomson|Ian.thomson]] ([[User talk:Ian.thomson|talk]]) 19:43, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
::The "no original research" policy is to safeguard the slower editors like myself. If I had to be exposed to high-quality research like the above on a regular basis, I would feel sad and inadequate, and would have to leave Wikipedia in shame. But rephrasing stuff found in mainstream academic sources -- that I can handle. [[User:Alephb|Alephb]] ([[User talk:Alephb|talk]]) 23:23, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
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== Nephilim (Nefilem) of Genasis 6:4 were Extraterrestrials ==

I added... Some have claimed that the “sons of God” and/or the Nephilim of ''Genesis 6:4'' were aliens.<ref]https://christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c036.html </ref] [[Special:Contributions/2601:580:B:954A:158E:C2B3:2CC1:E91C|2601:580:B:954A:158E:C2B3:2CC1:E91C]] ([[User talk:2601:580:B:954A:158E:C2B3:2CC1:E91C|talk]]) 15:30, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

== Hebrew Bible translation ==

Shouldn't the NJPS translation available at https://www.sefaria.org.il/Genesis.6?lang=en&aliyot=0 be referred to? [[User:Mcljlm|Mcljlm]] ([[User talk:Mcljlm|talk]]) 03:27, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

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Hebrew Bible translation

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Shouldn't the NJPS translation available at https://www.sefaria.org.il/Genesis.6?lang=en&aliyot=0 be referred to? Mcljlm (talk) 03:27, 5 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Norse Mythology

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The mythological Abrahamic and Norse giants, respectively the nephilim and jötnar, seem like they may be connected, due to the striking phonic similarities between the terms Nephilim and Niflheim / Niflhel. Is there any reliable evidence of any connection between the two, and is this similarity noteworthy? B. A. Beder (talk) 01:22, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • It's only noteworthy if someone other than you has also noted it and has had their work published in an independent reliable verifiable source somewhere. The mere semblance of similarity, however obvious it may appear to you, is not a reason for drawing a conclusion on Wikipedia. That would constitute WP:OR. A loose necktie (talk) 11:40, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Greek translations

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When discussing the choice of the Greek word 'gigantes' the article makes the claim that 'The Heb. nefilim means literally "the fallen ones" [...]'. This seems to directly contradict the Etymology section which claims that there is no agreed-upon translation of nefilim. I have no expertise to make this call, but I would suspect the Greek translation explanation needs editing. ColoradoBrownstain (talk) 14:42, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

NEPHILIM

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Try to translate this in Albania lenguage .. Nephilim in Albanian - Në Fillim .. 95.107.191.5 (talk) 12:34, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology section to be expanded upon

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While the information there is interesting and valuable, there is no actual etymology present. It should be expanded upon. —Polynilium (talk) 14:18, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's clear that the reference to them in Numbers 13 was part of an exaggerated/false report given by the spies sent to scout out Canaan

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The reading is clear to me that these spies said "the land devours people and there's nephilim!" in hopes of avoiding war. God punishes them for this in Numbers 14.

It is not a reliable account that nephilim existed post-flood. 73.150.209.138 (talk) 11:58, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Fallen angels cannot be "sons of God"

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Without this making God their father. That is blasphemy of the worst kind. https://biblehub.com/matthew/12-27.htm And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your people drive them out? So then, they will be your judges. 

49 Jesus, pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. 50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_12:49%E2%80%9350

Fallen angels/demons are those who rejected God's commands. In Job 1:6, it says on a certain day the sons of God assembled before Him and Satan was there >also<. That means Satan is also not a son of God. If Satan is the chief of fallen angels then they must not be God's sons, either. 6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan[a] also came among them. 2600:1700:B9C1:20C0:110A:15CB:ADF1:22E2 (talk) 16:56, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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