ʻĂnâqîy — H6062

Definition

patronymic adjective

an Anakite or descendant of Anak

1. Anakims = "long-necked"
2. a tribe of giants, descendants of Anak, which dwelled in southern Canaan

Usually translated as

Anakim

Origin

patronymically from H6061

• Derived from ʻÂnâq (H6061)

Occurrences

ʻĂnâqîy occurs 9 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Deuteronomy (5), Joshua (4)

• Deuteronomy 1:28 — Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims (עֲנָקִ֖ים) there.
• Deuteronomy 2:10 — The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims (כָּעֲנָקִֽים);
• Deuteronomy 2:11 — Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims (כָּעֲנָקִ֑ים); but the Moabites call them Emims.
• Deuteronomy 2:21 — A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims (כָּעֲנָקִ֑ים); but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
• Deuteronomy 9:2 — A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims (עֲנָקִ֑ים), whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
• Joshua 11:21 — And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims (הָֽעֲנָקִים֙) from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.
• Joshua 11:22 — There was none of the Anakims (עֲנָקִ֔ים) left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
• Joshua 14:12 — Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims (עֲנָקִ֣ים) were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
• Joshua 14:15 — And the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims (בָּעֲנָקִ֖ים). And the land had rest from war.