Nephilim

The Nephilim (; ''Nəfīlīm'') are mysterious beings or people in the Bible traditionally imagined as being of great size and strength, or alternatively beings of great power and authority. The origins of the Nephilim are disputed. Some, including the author of the Book of Enoch, view them as the offspring of rebellious angels and humans. Others view them as descendants of Seth and Cain.

This reference to them is in Genesis 6:1–4, but the passage is ambiguous and the identity of the Nephilim is disputed. According to Numbers 13:33, ten of the Twelve Spies report the existence of Nephilim in Canaan prior to its conquest by the Israelites.

A similar or identical Biblical Hebrew term, read as "Nephilim" by some scholars, or as the word "fallen" by others, appears in Ezekiel 32:27 and is also mentioned in the deuterocanonical books Judith 16:6, Sirach 16:7, Baruch 3:26–28, and Wisdom 14:6. presents the view that the word used in Ezekiel 32 is explicitly the word "Nephilim", the same word used in other Bible books. : proposes an alternate view, that the actual term used in Ezekiel 32:27 is a related, but different word, that is deliberately used to refer back to the traditional ideas about the Nephilim, but that it is ''not'' itself the explicit term "Nephilim". }} Provided by Wikipedia