KJV King James Version
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Genesis 6:4
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.
WEB World English Bible
The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
ASV American Standard Version
The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them—they are the heroes, who, from of old, are the men of name.
Surrounding context — Genesis 6
1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown.
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
הַנְּפִלִ֞יםH5303 · ne.philNephilimהָי֣וּH1961 · ha.yahto beבָאָרֶץ֮H776 · e.retsland: country/planetבַּיָּמִ֣יםH3117 · yomdayהָהֵם֒H1992 · hem.mahthey(masc.)וְגַ֣םH1571 · gamalsoאַֽחֲרֵי־H310 · a.charafterכֵ֗ןH3651 · kenrightאֲשֶׁ֨רH834 · a.sherwhichיָבֹ֜אוּH935 · boto come (in): comeבְּנֵ֤יH1121 · benson: childהָֽאֱלֹהִים֙H430 · e.lo.himGodאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)בְּנ֣וֹתH1323 · batdaughterהָֽאָדָ֔םH120 · a.dammanוְיָלְד֖וּH3205 · ya.ladto begetלָהֶ֑םH9038 · hemthemהֵ֧מָּהH1992 · hem.mahthey(masc.)הַגִּבֹּרִ֛יםH1368 · gib.bormighty manאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichמֵעוֹלָ֖םH5769 · o.lamforever: enduringאַנְשֵׁ֥יH582 · e.noshhumanהַשֵּֽׁם׃ פH8034 · shemname
Cross-references
Numbers 13:33And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, [which come] of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.2 Samuel 21:15-22Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.Deuteronomy 3:11For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; [is] it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits [was] the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.1 Samuel 17:4And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height [was] six cubits and a span.Deuteronomy 2:20-21(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;Numbers 16:2And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:Genesis 11:4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
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