How to Pronounce Nephilim

Neh-fih-LEEM

Nephilim is pronounced Neh-fih-LEEM: three syllables, stress on the third. Also heard: NEF-uh-lim.

What is Nephilim?

(Gen. 6:4; Num. 13:33, R.V.), giants, the Hebrew word left untranslated by the Revisers, the name of one of the Canaanitish tribes. The Revisers have, however, translated the Hebrew gibborim, in Gen. 6:4, “mighty men.”

Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.

Also pronounced

NEF-uh-lim

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