1:28 What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage61 by describing people who are more numerous62 and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven63 itself! Moreover, they said they saw64 Anakites65 there.”
tnHeb “greater.” Many English versions understand this to refer to physical size or strength rather than numbers (cf. “stronger,” NAB, NIV, NRSV; “bigger,” NASB).
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tn Or “as the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
snAnakites were giant people (Num 13:33; Deut 2:10, 21; 9:2) descended from a certain Anak whose own forefather Arba founded the city of Kiriath Arba, i.e., Hebron (Josh 21:11).