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The Gods of the Bible
Every named divine being in Scripture, what the text calls it, and what the ancient world thought it was.
Gibborim
The mighty men of old, a word used of ordinary warriors too.
Genesis 6:4, in every translation this tool compares.
The mighty men of old, the men of renown. The same word describes David's soldiers, so it carries nothing supernatural on its own. Genesis 6 supplies that from the sentence around it, not from the word.
The mighty men of old, the men of renown. The same word describes David's warriors, so it carries no supernatural weight by itself, and Genesis 6:4 supplies that from context. Ezekiel 32:17-32 gives the gibborim a place of honor in Sheol, lying in state with their swords under their heads and their shields over their bones, and Sirach 16:7 glosses the same tradition, saying they rebelled trusting in their strength. The first named gibbor, Nimrod (Genesis 10:8), carries an epithet cognate with Akkadian gabbaru, "strong," and Arabic al-jabbar, "the giant," which is also a name for the constellation Orion.
H1368 (גִּבּוֹר), 159 occ
- Genesis 6:4
- Genesis 10:8-9
- Ezekiel 32:27
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- DDD s.v. "Gibborim," 345
- DDD s.v. "Giants," 343-344 (the LXX *gigantes* equivalences)
- Kraeling, JNES 6 (1947): 193-208
