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Anak

Also called Anakims

Mentioned 1489–1442 BC traditional (Jones)

Long-necked, the son of Arba, father of the Anakim (Josh. 15:13; 21:11, Heb. Anok).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father
Arba
Children
Ahiman, Sheshai, Talmai
Tagged in
8 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Anak, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.

  1. likely location: Hebron4
  2. location not graded: Egypt1
  3. location unknown: Judah1
  4. location not graded: Negeb1
  5. likely location: Zoan1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1514–1417 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 2 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

8 tagged verses in 4 books. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. Numbers3
  2. Deuteronomy1
  3. Joshua3
  4. Judges1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBAnak 9Anakims 0
KJVAnak 9Anakims 9
ASVAnak 9Anakims 0

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Every verse

All 8 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Numbers3 verses
  1. 13:22

    They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

  2. 13:28

    Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.

  3. 13:33

    We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”

Deuteronomy1 verse
  1. 9:2

    The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”

Joshua3 verses
  1. 15:13

    According to the LORD’s command to him, Joshua gave Caleb son of Jephunneh a portion among the sons of Judah—Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.)

  2. 15:14

    And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak—the descendants of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

  3. 21:11

    They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), with its surrounding pasturelands, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the father of Anak.)

Judges1 verse
  1. 1:20

    Just as Moses had promised, Judah gave Hebron to Caleb, who drove out the descendants of the three sons of Anak.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

Long-necked, the son of Arba, father of the Anakim (Josh. 15:13; 21:11, Heb. Anok).