γίγας
giant
Where this word appears
Every passage where γίγας appears in the Greek Septuagint — 34 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 6:4 γίγας Now the giants were upon the earth in those days; and after that when the sons of God were wont to go in to the daughters of men, they bore children to them, those were the giants of old, the men of renown.
- Genesis 6:4 γίγας Now the giants were upon the earth in those days; and after that when the sons of God were wont to go in to the daughters of men, they bore children to them, those were the giants of old, the men of renown.
- Genesis 10:8 γίγας And Chus begot Nebrod: he began to be a giant upon the earth.
- Genesis 10:9 γίγας He was a giant hunter before the Lord God; therefore they say, As Nebrod the giant hunter before the Lord.
- Genesis 10:9 γίγας He was a giant hunter before the Lord God; therefore they say, As Nebrod the giant hunter before the Lord.
- Genesis 14:5 γίγας And in the fourteenth year came Chodollogomor, and the kings with him, and cut to pieces the giants in Astaroth, and Carnain, and strong nations with them, and the Ommaeans in the city Save.
- Numbers 13:33 γίγας And they brought a horror of that land which they surveyed upon the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed by to survey it, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of extraordinary stature.
- Deuteronomy 1:28 γίγας Whither do we go up? and your brethren drew away your heart, saying, It is a great nation and populous, and mightier than we; and there are cities great and walled up to heaven: moreover we saw there the sons of the giants.
- Joshua 12:4 γίγας And Og king of Basan, who lived in Astaroth and in Edrain, was left of the giants
- Joshua 13:12 γίγας All the kingdom of Og in the region of Basan, who reigned in Astaroth and in Edrain: he was left of the giants; and Moses struck him, and destroyed him.
- 2 Samuel 21:11 γίγας And it was told David what Respha the daughter of Aia the concubine of Saul had done, and they were faint, and Dan, the son of Joa of the offspring of the giants overtook them.
- 2 Samuel 21:22 γίγας These four were born descendants of the giants in Geth, the family of Rapha; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
- 1 Chronicles 1:10 γίγας And Chus begot Nebrod: he began to be a mighty hunter on the earth.
- 1 Chronicles 11:15 γίγας And three of the thirty chiefs went down to the rock to David, to the cave of Odollam, and the camp of the Philistines was in the giants' valley.
- 1 Chronicles 14:9 γίγας And the Philistines came and assembled together in the giants' valley.
- 1 Chronicles 14:13 γίγας And the Philistines once more assembled themselves in the giants' valley.
- 1 Chronicles 20:4 γίγας And it came to pass afterward that there was again war with the Philistines in Gazer: then Sobochai the Sosathite struck Saphut of the sons of the giants, and laid him low.
- 1 Chronicles 20:6 γίγας And there was again war in Geth, and there was a man of extraordinary size, and his fingers and toes were six on each hand and foot, four and twenty; and he was descended from the giants.
- 1 Chronicles 20:8 γίγας These were born to Rapha in Geth; all four were giants, and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
- Job 26:5 γίγας Shall giants be born from under the water and the inhabitants thereof?
- Psalms 18:6 γίγας His going forth is from the extremity of heaven, and his circuit to the other end of heaven: and no one shall be hidden from his heat.
- Psalms 32:16 γίγας A king is not saved by reason of a great host; and a giant shall not be delivered by the greatness of his strength.
- Proverbs 21:16 γίγας A man that wanders out of the way of righteousness, shall rest in the congregation of giants.
- Isaiah 3:2 γίγας the great and mighty man, the warrior and the judge, and the prophet, and the counsellor, and the elder,
- Isaiah 13:3 γίγας I give command, and I bring them: giants are coming to fulfil my wrath, rejoicing at the same time and insulting.
- Isaiah 14:9 γίγας Hell from beneath is provoked to meet you: all the great ones that have ruled over the earth have risen up together against you, they that have raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
- Isaiah 49:24 γίγας Will any one take spoils from a giant? and if one should take a man captive unjustly, shall he be delivered?
- Isaiah 49:25 γίγας For thus says the Lord, If one should take a giant captive, he shall take spoils, and he who takes them from a mighty man shall be delivered: for I will plead your cause, and I will deliver your children.
- Ezekiel 32:12 γίγας with the swords of mighty men; and I will cast down your strength: they are all destroying ones from the nations, and they shall destroy the pride of Egypt, and all her strength shall be crushed.
- Ezekiel 32:21 γίγας Be you in the depth of the pit: to whom are you superior? yes, go down, and lie with the uncircumcised, in the midst of them that are slain with the sword.
- Ezekiel 32:27 γίγας And they are laid with the giants that fell of old, who went down to Hades with their weapons of war: and they laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities were upon their bones, because they terrified all men during their life.
- Ezekiel 32:27 γίγας And they are laid with the giants that fell of old, who went down to Hades with their weapons of war: and they laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities were upon their bones, because they terrified all men during their life.
- Ezekiel 39:18 γίγας You⌃ shall eat the flesh of mighty men, and you⌃ shall drink the blood of princes of the earth, rams, and calves and goats, and they are all fatted calves.
- Ezekiel 39:20 γίγας And you⌃ shall be filled at my table, eating horse, and rider, and mighty man, and every warrior, says the Lord.
About this word
About this word
γίγας (gígas), “giant,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 34 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →