NEPHILIM
Andre Widodo
© ORI
Shalom,
Gen 6:4
There were GIANTS [נְפִלים - NEPHILIM] in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the SONS OF GOD [בני האלהים - B'NEI HA'ELOHIM] came in unto the DAUGHTERS OF MEN [בנות האדם - B'NOT HA'ADAM], and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
NEPHILIM, who are they?
The NEPHILIM were the offspring of the "SONS OF GOD" and the "DAUGHTERS OF MEN" according to Genesis 6:4. They were gigantic men who inhabited Canaan according to Numbers 13:33.
Num 13:33
And there we saw the GIANTS [נְפִלים - NEPHILIM] the sons of Anak, which come of the GIANTS [נְפִלים - NEPHILIM] and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
A similar biblical Hebrew word with different vowel-sounds is used in Ezekiel 32:27 to refer to dead.
The word NEPHILIM [נְפִלים] probably derives from the Semitic root NPL [נָפַל] which means "TO FALL" which also includes "TO CAUSE TO FALL".
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon gives the meaning as "GIANTS".
Adam Clarke took it as passive, "FALLEN", "APOSTATE".
Ronald Hendel states that it is a passive form "ONES WHO HAVE FALLEN".
There is a book, call a Book of Enoch. This book was used during the Second Temple Judaism. The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish religious work, traditionally ascribed to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. Although tt is not part of the biblical canon as used by Jews, it is regarded as canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox group.
In the Book of Enoch, it is said :
"[Chapter 6]
1 And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto 2 them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men 3 and beget us children.' And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not 4 indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.' And they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations 5 not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' Then sware they all together and bound themselves 6 by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn 7 and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And these are the names of their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, 8 Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaq1el, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens."
It can be read online in here : BOOK OF ENOCH ONLINE
According to these texts, the fallen angels who begat the NEPHILIM were cast into Tartarus (Greek Enoch 20:2), a place of ''total darkness''.
In the Book of Jubilees, (Hebrew: ספר היובלים - Sepher hayYobelim), sometimes called Lesser Genesis (Leptogenesis), is an ancient Jewish religious work, also states that God granted ten percent of the disembodied spirits of the nephilim to remain after the flood, as demons, to try to lead the human race astray until the final Judgment.
In addition to Enoch, the Book of Jubilees (7:21–25) also states that ridding the Earth of these NEPHILIM was one of God's purposes for flooding the Earth in Noah's time. These works describe the NEPHILIM as being evil GIANTS.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan identifies the NEPHILIM as Shemihaza and the angels in the name list from 1 Enoch.[18] b Yoma 67, PRE22 and 1 QapGen ar ii 1 also identify the NEPHILIM as the angels that FELL.
In the New Testament Epistle of Jude 14–15 cites from 1 Enoch 1:9, which many scholars believe is based on Deuteronomy 33:2. To most commentators this confirms that the author of Jude regarded the Enochic interpretations of Genesis 6 as correct.
Andre Widodo
© ORI
Shalom,
Gen 6:4
There were GIANTS [נְפִלים - NEPHILIM] in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the SONS OF GOD [בני האלהים - B'NEI HA'ELOHIM] came in unto the DAUGHTERS OF MEN [בנות האדם - B'NOT HA'ADAM], and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
NEPHILIM, who are they?
The NEPHILIM were the offspring of the "SONS OF GOD" and the "DAUGHTERS OF MEN" according to Genesis 6:4. They were gigantic men who inhabited Canaan according to Numbers 13:33.
Num 13:33
And there we saw the GIANTS [נְפִלים - NEPHILIM] the sons of Anak, which come of the GIANTS [נְפִלים - NEPHILIM] and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
A similar biblical Hebrew word with different vowel-sounds is used in Ezekiel 32:27 to refer to dead.
The word NEPHILIM [נְפִלים] probably derives from the Semitic root NPL [נָפַל] which means "TO FALL" which also includes "TO CAUSE TO FALL".
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon gives the meaning as "GIANTS".
Adam Clarke took it as passive, "FALLEN", "APOSTATE".
Ronald Hendel states that it is a passive form "ONES WHO HAVE FALLEN".
There is a book, call a Book of Enoch. This book was used during the Second Temple Judaism. The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish religious work, traditionally ascribed to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. Although tt is not part of the biblical canon as used by Jews, it is regarded as canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox group.
In the Book of Enoch, it is said :
"[Chapter 6]
1 And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto 2 them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men 3 and beget us children.' And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not 4 indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.' And they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations 5 not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' Then sware they all together and bound themselves 6 by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn 7 and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And these are the names of their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, 8 Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaq1el, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens."
It can be read online in here : BOOK OF ENOCH ONLINE
According to these texts, the fallen angels who begat the NEPHILIM were cast into Tartarus (Greek Enoch 20:2), a place of ''total darkness''.
In the Book of Jubilees, (Hebrew: ספר היובלים - Sepher hayYobelim), sometimes called Lesser Genesis (Leptogenesis), is an ancient Jewish religious work, also states that God granted ten percent of the disembodied spirits of the nephilim to remain after the flood, as demons, to try to lead the human race astray until the final Judgment.
In addition to Enoch, the Book of Jubilees (7:21–25) also states that ridding the Earth of these NEPHILIM was one of God's purposes for flooding the Earth in Noah's time. These works describe the NEPHILIM as being evil GIANTS.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan identifies the NEPHILIM as Shemihaza and the angels in the name list from 1 Enoch.[18] b Yoma 67, PRE22 and 1 QapGen ar ii 1 also identify the NEPHILIM as the angels that FELL.
In the New Testament Epistle of Jude 14–15 cites from 1 Enoch 1:9, which many scholars believe is based on Deuteronomy 33:2. To most commentators this confirms that the author of Jude regarded the Enochic interpretations of Genesis 6 as correct.
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