the Berasit Hebrew Dictionary

ענקימ

The 'yeneqim' are group of people whose name is based upon the root word yeneq. Unfortunately, the root word appears only as the name of a character, and gives no indication of what it might mean.

All we can really infer about the 'yeneqim' is what the texts explicitly say about them.

• Deuteronomy 1:28 tells us that they had large cities with great fortifications, and relates them to “The Ascendant Ones” (yelim) and “The Legendary Ones” (semim)
• Deuteronomy 2 says they were great and numerous and tall, before Yahweh dispossessed them and took their territory.
• Joshua 11:21 describes how Joshua enacted a systematic genocide against their remnant that was scattered in the hills, leaving only a few survivors in Gaza.

Although they are mentioned as being tall, they were apparently not that difficult of a foe for Joshua, so it is probably a stretch to think of them as giants.

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