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by Micha F. Lindemans

Reputed giants inhabiting the territory on both sides of the Jordan before the coming of the Israelites. The Hebrew spies said they were mere grasshoppers in comparison with these Anakim (Josh. xv, 14; Judges i, 20; Numb. xiii, 33). Their progenitor was Anak.