and the daughters of men he does not use the verb yāda‘. He had used the latter, meaning ‘to know’, of marital relations in 4:1, 17, 25. But in our present verse the author employs the verb ‘to go in to’, a much crasser and base terminology. Finally, the verse tells us that the Nephilim acquired a name for themselves—they were famous, ‘men of renown’. The Hebrew word for ‘name’ is shēm, and it is probably a word-play on the name of Noah’s son Shem (5:32). My wife and I know a number