The same can be said of the function of the Greek heroes.42 An interesting description of the Nephilim as dead warriors of old is preserved in Ezek 32:27: They lie43 with the warriors, The Nephilim of old,44 who descended to Sheol with their weapons of war. They placed their swords beneath their heads and their shields45 upon their bones, for the terror of the warriors was upon the land of the living. Nephilim literally means “the fallen ones,”46 indicating, apparently, the ones fallen in death.