Jos 15:13 And to Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh he gave a portion in the midst of the children of Yehuḏah, according to the command of יהוה to Yehoshua: Qiryath Arba, that is Ḥeḇron – Arba was the father of Anaq.
Jos 15:14 And Kalĕḇ drove out the three sons of Anaq from there: Shĕshai, and Aḥiman, and Talmai, the children of Anaq.
The word arba H702 means 'four', also meaning 40 when written in plural form. Caleb drove the 3 sons of Anaq from there. That’s why Caleb and Yahushua based on this promise didn’t believe the evil report the spies brought back.
1Co 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds.
1Co 15:40 And there are heavenly/celestial bodies and earthly bodies, but the esteem of the heavenly is truly one, and the esteem of the earthly is another,
1Co 15:41 one esteem of the sun, and another esteem of the moon, and another esteem of the stars – for star differs from star in esteem.
If we read closely to what the emissary Shaul says, he differentiates between the Celestial/Heavenly and earthly bodies. They are incompatible to mate with each other. If they can, then a tortoise can make a woman pregnant. You would easily say that a tortoise body is incompatible to mate with a woman. While wickedness did exist in that men or women laid with beasts for pleasure, severe punishment was proclaimed on those doing so in Torah, but mating with a beast to make babies is incompatibility. So how can one think that women mated with angels? How weird that can be? Isn't it?
Lev 18:22 ‘And do not lie with a male as with a woman, it is an abomination.
Lev 18:23 ‘And do not have intercourse with any beast, to defile yourself with it. And a woman does not stand before a beast to mate with it, it is a perversion.
Naphal also means a bully/tyrant and they were definitely oppressors.
Now let's examine the passage used for teaching giants as sons of Anaq:
Num 13:32 And they gave the children of Yisra’ěl an evil report/H1681 dibbah of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land eating up its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size/middah H4060
Num 14:33 ‘And your sons shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whorings, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.
Num 14:34 ‘According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days – a day for a year, a day for a year – you are to bear your crookednesses forty years, and you shall know My breaking off.
Num 14:35 ‘I am יהוה, I have spoken, I shall do this to all this evil congregation who are meeting against Me: In this wilderness they are consumed, and there they die.’ ”
Num 14:36 And the men whom Mosheh sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing an evil report/ dibbah H1681 of the land,
Num 14:37 even those men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before יהוה.
Num 14:38 Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Yehoshua son of Nun, and Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh remained alive.
Here Yahuah says He will consume everyone for bringing an evil report of the land and only Joshua and Caleb remained alive from them as they believed Yahuah's report. For they realized that when their father Abraham sojourned the land , Yahuah’s dread was with Abraham their father and the children of Heth did him no harm.
Dibbah: translated as 'evil report'
Dibbah has 3 Abary root words
1. dab which means quiet/slow
2. bah which means a box which needs to be filled
3. dah which means attack and is a root word in Daah which means a bird of prey
It’s like something subtly put into the door (Dalet) of the mind/bah (a box that needs filling) as unbelief, fear etc.
This was not a correct report they had brought of Kanaan.
Middah: translated as 'great size'
Middah has also 3 Abary root words
1. mad: carpet/continue/stretch/measure
2. dah: bird of prey
3. mah: Something that is unknown, can also be why, when or how
The size was exaggerated
Gen 6:4 The Nephilim/fallen ones were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of Elohim came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, the men of name/shem.
Hence, when we read about the Nephilim we must read based upon the scripture vs scripture comparison and not borrow a mindset outside of canon into the scriptures to teach otherwise. We saw in Ezekiel 32:26-27 that these fallen ones/nephilim are from the uncircumcised who went down to Sheol with their weapons which is an imagery tying them to the men of name/renown.
When we come back to Abraham, we see him too in an uncircumcised state in the land of Chaldees and he is called out of his father's house and he came and dwelt in Kanaan in Hebron. He walked with Aluahym 24 years in an uncircumcised state whilst his heart was circumcised as he believed Yahuah's promise. Yahuah gave him the promise with an outward seal of righteousness i.e. circumcision. These nephillim/fallen ones were brothers from one blood. Shem, Ham and Yapeth were sons of Noach and Abraham was a descendant from the lineage of Shem and Cheth/Heth was from the lineage of Ham. From the seed of Shem came the nation of Yasharal while the other seeds remained a fallen/nephilim arel/uncircumcised (both in heart as well as flesh)
Gen 23:2 And Sarah died in Qiryath Arba, that is Ḥeḇron, in the land of Kena‛an, and Aḇraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
Gen 23:19 And after this Aḇraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Maḵpělah, before Mamrě, that is Ḥeḇron, in the land of Kena‛an.
Abraham brought a burial site to bury his own in Hebron
Gen 23:7 So Aḇraham rose and bowed himself to the people of the land, the sons of Ḥěth/Cheth
Cheth H2845 means 'terror' and is a root word in H2865 chathath which means prostrate, make afraid, beat down, discourage
Gen 10:15 And Kena‛an brought forth Tsiḏon his first-born, and Ḥěth,
Kenaan was son of Ham and Cheth was his son
The same root word is used in Ezekiel 32:26 & 27 twice letting us know who those fallen of the uncircumcised are. No giants as traditionalists wants us to believe.
Eze 32:26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror/chittyith H2851 (from 2865 terror) in the land of the living.
Eze 32:27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen/nephillim of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror/chittyith H2851 (from 2865 terror) of the mighty in the land of the living.
Those teaching angels married daughters of men and made babies are making Yahusha a liar as He said clearly that the sons of this age marry and are given in marriage but those attaining resurrection are as messengers of Aluahym who don't marry. The incompatibility is defined here by Yahusha clearly.
Luk 20:34 And יהושע answering, said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,
Mat 22:30 “For in the resurrection they do not marry, nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers of Elohim in heaven.
Gen 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of Elohim came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, the men of name.
Gen6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days,
and also afterward/acharay-ken
Yahuah lets us know that these fallen ones who were uncircumcised were before and after the flood, not giants as we saw.
Rephaims:
Deu 3:11 “For only Oḡ sovereign of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Repha’ites/H7497. See, his bedstead was an iron bedstead. Is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the cubit of a man.
The word Rephaites comes from the word raphah H7498 and has positive or negative meaning as per context. Raphah means 'sick' in the negative sense and 'heal' in the positive sense.
Exo 15:26 And He said, “If you diligently obey the voice of יהוה your Elohim and do what is right in His eyes, and shall listen to His commands and shall guard all His laws, I shall bring on you none of the diseases I brought on the Mitsrites, for I am יהוה who heals/raphah H7495 you.”
All these words H7495, H7496, H7497, H7498, H7503, H7504 have the same spelling
The Masoretic text put a context to these words through vowel pointing, placing differences as per their external mindset, reading into the scriptures at times.
Here are the words listed below for the word raphah:
רָפָה H7503: A primitive root; to slacken (in many applications, literally or figuratively): - abate, cease, consume, draw [toward evening], fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble, forsake, idle, leave, let alone (go, down), (be) slack, stay, be still, be slothful, (be) weak (-en). See H7495.
רָפֶה H7504: From H7503; slack (in body or mind): - weak.
רָפָה or רָפָא H7495: A primitive root; properly to mend (by stitching), that is, (figuratively) to cure: - cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, X thoroughly, make whole. See H7503.
רָפָא H7496: From H7495 in the sense of H7503; properly lax, that is, (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only): - dead, deceased.
רָפָה or רָפָא H7497: From H7495 in the sense of invigorating; a giant: - giant, Rapha, Rephaim (-s). See also H1051.
רָפָה or רָפָא H7498: Probably the same as H7497; giant; Rapha or Raphah, the name of two Israelites: - Rapha.
With so many different vowels putting an external context to the words, who decides what meaning has to be taken?
This is all synonymous of what we read in Ezekiel 32:26-27 they were like the fallen uncircumcised who were terrors, men of violence and mighty men of war. A dreadful people. Emims in Moab being seed of Lot through his daughter. The verses tell us Yahuah told Masha not to distress Moab for their land is allotted to the descendants of Lot as possession and He is not going to give them any of it.
Deu 2:9 “And יהוה said to me, ‘Do not distress Mo’aḇ, nor stir yourself up against them in battle, for I do not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.’ ”
Deu 2:10 (The Ěmites had dwelt there formerly, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anaqim.
Deu 2:11 They were also reckoned as Repha’ites, like the Anaqim, but the Mo’aḇites call them Ěmites.
In the Messianic Psalm 22 prophetically it says Psa 22:12 Many bulls have surrounded Me; Strong ones/abiyir H47 of Bashan have encircled Me.
Abiyr H47: The mighty power of a bird in flight. Anything or anyone of great strength, physical or mental. [freq. 23] |kjv: might, bulls, strong, mighty, stouthearted, valiant, angels, chiefest| {str: 46, 47}
We know who surrounded Yahusha as strong ones of Bashan i.e. the Yerushalayim council of high priests, priests, Pharisees, Saducees etc with the Romans and the Gentiles. No giants here. Og was from Bashan a last of Repahim during that generation.
In the following generations there rose up 5 other men from 'Rephaiy' and again they have translated 'Rephaiy/raphah' as giants
1Sa 17:4 Then a champion /iysh H376 benayim H1143 came out from the camp of the Philistines, named Golyath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
1Sa 17:5 And a bronze helmet was on his head, and he was armed with a scaled armour, and the weight of the coat was five thousand sheqels of bronze,
The word iysh means 'man/husband' in Hebrew. The word 'benayim' means 'dual'. A 'dual' man for combat and that's why they have translated as 'champion' Goliath is not mentioned as from the sons of 'Raphah/Rephiy/m' but his brother 'Lahmi' is placed in the category in 2 Sam 21:22.
2Sa 21:16 and Yishbo-Benoḇ – who was one of the sons of the 'rephaiy' H7498, the weight of whose bronze spear was three hundred pieces, who was bearing a new sword – spoke of killing Dawiḏ.
2Sa 21:17 But Aḇishai son of Tseruyah came to help him, and smote the Philistine and killed him. Then Dawiḏ’s men swore to him, saying, “Do not go out with us to battle any more, lest you put out the lamp of Yisra’ĕl.”
2Sa 21:18 And it came to be afterward, that there was a battle again with the Philistines at Goḇ. Then Sibbeḵai the Ḥushathite smote Saph, who was one of the sons of the'rephaiy' H7498
2Sa 21:19 And there was a battle with the Philistines again at Goḇ, where Elḥanan son of Yaʽarĕy-Oreḡim the Bĕyth Leḥemite smote the brother of Golyath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
2Sa 21:20 And there was a battle in Gath again, where there was a man of height/mad H4055, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number. and he also was born to the Repha’iy/raphah H7498.
2Sa 21:21 And when he defied את eth-Yashar’el, Yahunathan the son of Shim`iy the brother of David slew him.
2Sa 21:22 את eth-These four were born to the Repha’iy in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
So there were 5 from the Rephaiy during David's time
1. Goliath whom David killed when David was a young boy
The other 4 are mentioned in 2 Sam 21 when David had become weak
2. Yisho-Benob
3. Saph
4. Goliath's brother (name not given) here but in 1Chr 20:5 his name mentioned is 'Lahmi'
5. The man with 24 fingers (both hands and legs together)
Now let's come back to Og from Bashan
Deu 3:11 “For only Oḡ sovereign of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Repha’ites/H7497
1st we saw what raphah means as per context
2nd we saw they were not a produce of seed between angels and daughters of men
3rd we saw Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of Rephaites in his generation and yet there arose hundreds of years later 5 other during the time of David.
Hence with this analysis ,Raphah/Rephaites were not descendants of one man or a tribe but are a category of men of huge stature due to genetic hormone growth disorder who stood as terrors & mighty men of war & valour, and are compared to the Emims and sons of Anaq who we also saw are not a produce of seed between angels and daughters of men. We already saw the incompatibility. Also Deut 2:11 says the Emim and the Anaqim are also regarded as Rephaim
Deut 2:10 The Emim/H368 lived therein in times past, a people as great, numerous, and tall/rum H7311 as the Anaqim.
Deut 2:11 Like the Anaqim, they are also regarded as Rephaim/H7497 (KJV here translates as giants), but the Moabites call them Emim/H368
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