Darby's translation notes (1890)
Genesis 6:4
6:4 renown. (h-43) Or 'the name,' i.e. who had a peculiar and known name on the earth. Heroes is Gibbor in Heb., meaning 'mighty men.'
6:4 renown. (h-43) Or 'the name,' i.e. who had a peculiar and known name on the earth. Heroes is Gibbor in Heb., meaning 'mighty men.'
Verse Genesis 6:4. _THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE EARTH_] נפלים _nephilim_, from נפל _naphal_, "he fell." Those who had _apostatized_ or _fallen_ from the true religion. The Septuagint translate the origi...
- The Growth of Sin 3. דון _dı̂yn_ “be down, strive, subdue, judge.” בשׁגם _bāshagām_ “inasmuch, as also.” The rendering “in their error” requires the pointing בשׁגם _b__e__shāgām_, and the plural...
CHAPTER 6:1-8 The Increasing Corruption _ 1. The sons of God and the daughters of men (Genesis 6:1)_ 2. The warning of Jehovah (Genesis 6:3) 3. Increased wickedness (Genesis 6:4) 4. Judgment anno...
The Angel Marriages. This section belongs to J, but to what stratum is not clear. In its nakedly mythological character it is quite unlike anything else in the history. It is obscure at some points, p...
GIANTS. _Nephilim._ See App-25. THOSE DAYS. "the days of Noah. " ALSO AFTER THAT. after their destruction by the Flood, as well as before it. There was another irruption, the result being like those...
Genesis 6:1 to Genesis 9:29. The Deluge 1 4. _The sons of God and the daughters of men_ This short strange passage serves as a kind of Preface to the Narrative of the Deluge. There is nothing to be fo...
_The Nephilim_ i.e. _giants_. It is natural to refer to Numbers 13:33, "And there we saw the Nephilim (Or, _giants_), the sons of Anak, which come of the Nephilim; and we were in our own sight as gras...
THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE EARTH, &C.— The grand question is, what is meant by these _giants?_ were they really men of extraordinary size, or does the word refer solely to the enormity of their deeds? I...
PART TWENTY: THE WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD (Genesis 6:1-22) 1. _Universal Degeneracy_ (Genesis 6:1-8). And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were bor...
_THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE EARTH IN THOSE DAYS; AND ALSO AFTER THAT, WHEN THE SONS OF GOD CAME IN UNTO THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN, AND THEY BARE CHILDREN TO THEM, THE SAME BECAME MIGHTY MEN WHICH WERE OF OLD...
THERE WERE GIANTS] RV 'the Nephilim were.' The Nephilim, a race of giants, famous in popular legend, are represented as being men of renown at the same time as these angels formed unions with the daug...
THE SONS OF GOD AND THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN 1-4. This fragment seems to have been placed here as an instance of the wickedness which necessitated the Flood. Stories of unions between deities and the wome...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 6 PEOPLE ARE VERY WICKED V1 At that time, men began to increase on the earth. Many daughters were born for them. V2 Then the sons of God saw that...
GIANTS. — Heb., _Nephilim,_ mentioned again in Numbers 13:33, and apparently a race of great physical strength and stature. Nothing is more probable than that, at a time when men lived for centuries,...
הַ נְּפִלִ֞ים הָי֣וּ בָ † אָרֶץ֮ בַּ...
THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi
THE WICKEDNESS OF MEN Genesis 5:25; Genesis 6:1 When a son was born to Lamech, he named him Noah, which means “ _Rest._ ”He thought that the boy would grow up to share and alleviate the strain of dai...
With the passing of the centuries, the degeneration of the individual and the family became that of society. There had been intermixture between the descendants of Cain and those of Seth, resulting in...
THE SONS OF GOD MARRIED THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN From the time of the fall, men could be grouped in two major categories. The "sons of God" would be those people who had good morals, were God-fearing and...
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] o...
Giants. It is likely the generality of men before the flood were of a gigantic stature, in comparison with what men now are. But these here spoken of, are called giants, as being not only tall in stat...
There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
4._There were giants in the earth_. Among the innumerable kinds of corruptions with which the earth was filled, Moses especially records one in this place; namely that giants practiced great violence...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6, 7, AND 8. Finally we find power and force here below, the result, of the sons of God not keeping their first estate, of apostasy; and God executes judgment...
THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE EARTH IN THOSE DAYS,.... That is, in the days before the sons of God took the daughters of men for wives, in such a general manner as before declared, or before the declension...
_There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were]...
Gen. 6:4 Gen. 6:4. The monstrous births that arose from the conjunction of the sons of God with the daughters of men, typify unto us what an odious monster results from the conjoining of holy things...
_There were giants_ Men so called partly for their high stature, but principally for their great strength and force, whereby they oppressed and tyrannised over others. For this is mentioned as another...
1 The wickednesse of the world, which prouoked Gods wrath, and caused the Flood. 8 Noah findeth grace. 13 The order, forme, and end of the Arke. 1 AND it came to passe, when men began to multiply o...
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old,...
The Wickedness of Men...
FOURTH SECTION _The Universal Corruption in consequence of the mingling of the two lines. The anomism (or enormity) of sins before the flood. Predominant unbelief. Titanic pride. After the flood prev...
MAN'S DEGRADATION TO CORRUPTION AND VIOLENCE It was not long before mankind multiplied greatly on earth, and the dreadful effects of sin multiplied with them. this is emphasized in the corrupt mixture...
1-7 The most remarkable thing concerning the old world, is the destroying of it by the deluge, or flood. We are told of the abounding iniquity of that wicked world: God's just wrath, and his holy res...
_ 2469_ GIANTS; men so called, partly from their high stature, but principally for their great strength and force, whereby they oppressed and tyrannized over others: for this is mentioned as another s...
Genesis 9:1-29 We have, now, arrived at a deeply-important and strongly-marked division of our book. Enoch has passed off the scene. His walk, as a stranger on earth, has terminated in his translation...
Genesis 6:4 giants H5303 earth H776 days H3117 afterward H310 H3651 when H834 sons H1121 God H430 in...
‘The Nephilim were on the earth (or “in the land”) in those days, and also afterwards, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men t...
SONS OF GOD Some hold that these "sons of God" were the "angels which kept not their first estate" (Jude 1:6). It is asserted that the title is in the Old Testament exclusively used of angels. But th...
Gen. 6-7 A long period elapsed between the commencement of the building of the ark and the actual flood. During that period we notice: (1) the strength of Noah's faith. God has told him of a deluge of...
CONTENTS: Flood announced. Compromise of sons of God with daughters of men. CHARACTERS: Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth. CONCLUSION: The true believer can float in peace on the very waters by which the wic...
Genesis 6:2. _Sons of God._ Some understand this expression of Seth's sons, who intermarried with Cain's daughters, but assign no reason for their being called the _daughters of men._ Others understan...
_Giants in the earth_ GIANTS Story of Jack the Giant Killer: written to teach children that they have got to fight giants. I. The first giant you have to overcome is ILL-TEMPER. Look out for him wh...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 6:4 The meaning of NEPHILIM is not clear. The only other OT occurrence of the term is in Numbers 13:33, where the Israelite spies use it to describe a g
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 6:2. Sons of God.]—That these were angels is a view which, it is well-known, has been held from ancient times, both by Jews and Christians. Of the latter class may be named Ju...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 6:1, GENESIS 6:2 AND IT CAME TO PASS. Literally, _it was_;_ _not in immediate sequence to the preceding chapter, but at some earlier point in the antediluvian period; perhaps about...
Chapter six. It came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took...
giants. Numbers 13:33 Deuteronomy 2:20 Deuteronomy 2:21 Deuteronomy 3:11...
THE CORRUPTED EARTH Genesis 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we approach the story of the flood, which God sent as a judgment upon the earth, which was corrupt before God and filled with violence, it will...
There were giants, and men of renown — They carried all before them, 1. With their great bulk, as the sons of Anak, Numbers 13:33, and, 2. With their great name, as the king of Assyria, Isaiah 37:11....