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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Anak
Ancestor of the Anakim, the tall people of Hebron who frightened the spies. His father was Arba, and Hebron was first called Kirjath-arba after him. Caleb drove Anak's descendants out and took the city.
Ancestor of the Anakim, the tall people of Hebron who frightened the spies. His father was Arba, and Hebron was first called Kirjath-arba after him. Caleb drove Anak's descendants out and took the city.
Anak was the ancestor of the Anakim, a people of great stature who inhabited Hebron and struck fear into the Israelite spies sent to scout Canaan (Numbers 13:33). Joshua 15:13 identifies his father as Arba, for whom the city of Hebron was originally named Kirjath-arba. Caleb eventually drove the descendants of Anak out of Hebron and received the city as his inheritance (Joshua 15:14).
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- Joshua 21:11
