Giants (Nephilim)
Offspring of Watchers and human women. Symbol of the chaos and judgment that necessitated the Flood. In Enoch and Jubilees, they devour and oppress.
Details
- Symbolizes
- Corruption and Violence from Forbidden Union
Ancient Writings Type
Apocalyptic
Key Chapters
Key Passages
Birth of the Giants
The Book of Enoch 7:1-6
1nd all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants.
In Jubilees
The Book of Jubilees 5:1-2
1nd it came to pass when the children of men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them, that the angels of God saw them on a certain year of this jubilee, that they were beautiful to look upon; and they took themselves wives of all whom they chose, and they bare unto them sons and they were giants. And lawlessness increased on the earth and all flesh corrupted its way, alike men and cattle and beasts and birds and everything that walks on the earth -all of them corrupted their ways and their orders, and they began to devour each other, and lawlessness increased on the earth and every imagination of the thoughts of all men
Did You Know?
Their violence and cannibalism symbolize total moral collapse.
They are destroyed before the Flood as part of cleansing the earth.