'Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, "The people [are] greater and taller than we; the cities [are] great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there." '

"a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and [of whom] you heard [it said,] 'Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?'

And they went up through the South and came to Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, [were] there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

"Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land [are] strong; the cities [are] fortified [and] very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.

"There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."