עֲנָקִי
Anakims
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Anakims’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 7 times (78%)
- Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 2 times (22%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6062 appears — 9 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Deuteronomy 5 verses
- Deuteronomy 1:28 עֲנָקִ֖ים n c mp Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
- Deuteronomy 2:10 כָּ/עֲנָקִֽים prep det + n c mp (The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
- Deuteronomy 2:11 כָּ/עֲנָקִ֑ים prep det + n c mp these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
- Deuteronomy 2:21 כָּ/עֲנָקִ֑ים prep det + n c mp a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;
- Deuteronomy 9:2 עֲנָקִ֑ים n c mp a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the sons of Anak?
Joshua 4 verses
- Joshua 11:21 הָֽ/עֲנָקִים֙ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill-country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill-country of Judah, and from all the hill-country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
- Joshua 11:22 עֲנָקִ֔ים n c mp There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.
- Joshua 14:12 עֲנָקִ֣ים n c mp Now therefore give me this hill-country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and cities great and fortified: it may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh spoke.
- Joshua 14:15 בָּ/עֲנָקִ֖ים prep det + n Gentilic mp Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba; [which Arba was] the greatest man among the Anakim. The land had rest from war.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, ענקי (ʻĂnâqîy) means “Anakims.” Its uses cluster heavily in Deuteronomy (56% of all occurrences). Spanning 9 verses in 2 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Deuteronomy 1:28. Dig into 9-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6062 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 5 verses 56%
- Joshua 4 verses 44%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 56%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 44%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Anakims 6×
- American Standard Version†: Anakim 5×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Anakim 5×, Anakites 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Anakites 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6062 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6062 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6062 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6062 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Anakims = "long-necked"
- a tribe of giants, descendants of Anak, which dwelled in southern Canaan
Word origin
I. n.[m.] neck, only in epith. gent. בְּנֵי הָעֲנָק long-necked (tall) men, early giant people about Hebron and in Philistia, Ενακ, Εναχ, Jos 15:14 (JE) = Ju 1:20, without art. Nu 13:33 (JE), Dt 9:2; also יְלִידַי הָע׳ Nu 13:22, 28; Jos 15:14 (all JE); called also עֲנָקִים long-necks, Ενακειμ, Jos 14:12, 15 (JE), 11:21, 22 (D), Dt 2:10, 11, 21 + Je 47:5 (read עֲנָקִים for MT עִמְקָם), and perhaps 1 Ch 12:16 (v. עֵמֶק ad fin.); בְּנֵי עֲנָקִים 1:28 (𝔊 γίγαντες, cf. Nu 13:33), 9:2; עֲנָק later (erron.) as eponym. ancestor of Anaḳim Jos 15:13 = עֲנוֹק 21:11 (both P).—Vid. especially MeyZAW i (1881), 139 GFM Ju 1:10, 20 CheEncy. Bib. ANAK.
II. n.m. Ct 4:9 necklace, neck-pendant (Aramaism according to LagBN 175);—abs. ע׳ Ct 4:9 appar. part of necklace, perhaps neck-pendant; pl. עֲנָקוֹת Ju 8:26 (ornament of camels), עֲנָקִים Pr 1:9 (of youth; in fig.).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ענק (ʻÂnâq) (H6061) — Anak.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H6062 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כָּ/עֲנָקִ֑ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 2:11 | 2 |
| בָּ/עֲנָקִ֖ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Joshua 14:15 | 1 |
| הָֽ/עֲנָקִים֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Joshua 11:21 | 1 |
| כָּ/עֲנָקִֽים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 2:10 | 1 |
| עֲנָקִ֑ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 9:2 | 1 |
| עֲנָקִ֔ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Joshua 11:22 | 1 |
| עֲנָקִ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 1:28 | 1 |
| עֲנָקִ֣ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Joshua 14:12 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
