Definition of "Nephilim"

Nephilim

noun
1. plural of Naphil
  Quotations
  The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
  2011, Biblica, Holy Bible: New International Version, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, Genesis 6:4
  We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.
  2011, Biblica, Holy Bible: New International Version, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, Numbers 13:33
noun
plural Nephilim or Nephilims
1. (nonstandard) Synonym of Naphil (“a member of the race of Nephilim”).