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Strong's #6061 - עֲנוֹק
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Anak = “neck”
1) progenitor of a family, or tribe of the giant people in Canaan
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epithet of peopleבְּנֵי הָעֲנָק long-necked (tall) men, early giant people about Hebron and in Philistia, Ενακ, Εναχ, Joshua 15:14 (JE) = Judges 1:20, without article Numbers 13:33 (JE), Deuteronomy 9:2; also ׳יְלִדַי הָע Numbers 13:22,28; Joshua 15:14 (all J E); called also עֲנָקִים long-necks, Ενακειμ, Joshua 14:12,15 (JE), Joshua 11:21,22 (D), Deuteronomy 2:10,11,21 + Jeremiah 47:5 (read עֲנָקִים for ᵑ0עִמְקָם), and perhaps 1 Chronicles 12:16 (see עֵמֶק near the end); בְּנֵי עֲנָקִים 1 Chronicles 1:28 (ᵐ5 γίγαντες, compare Numbers 13:33), Numbers 9:2; עֲנָק later (erroneously) as eponymous ancestor of Anakim Joshua 15:13 = עֲנוֺק Joshua 21:11 (both P). — See especially Mey ZAW i (1881), 139 GFM Judges 1:10. 20 Che Ency. Bib. ANAK.