Was Goliath a Nephilim? Also, can anyone tell me more about Nephilim... other than their hybrids...?

Answer 1

The Nephilim were fallen angels who came down to earth and had relations with women. Some scholars believe that this was Satans attempt to destroy the human blood line of Adam so that the "seed of the woman" that is, the Christ could not be born.
Yes, most scholars believe that Goliath was one of the sons of an interrelationship between a fallen angel and a woman. Goliath had four brothers also, who were slain later. Some scholars believe that this is why David picked up five smooth stones, he knew that it would only take one for Goliath but was ready for the other four brothers.

Answer 2

Did you ever see Andre the Giant on TV? Great guy, so tragic that he died young. I guess he was a "Nephilim" too, since he was a really big guy. The Bible says Goliath was a Philistine from the city of Gath, btw, not a Nephilim. Why read into the story something that isn't there?

Answer 3

Depending on interpretations, nephilims were considered abominations in the eyes of the god. Basically speaking, nephilims were the earliest physically-manifested demons on earth, according to the bible that is. Why not watch the British series HEX? It's about the occult and nephilims. Not really accurate in regards to the nephilims, but you get a very basic and rough idea of what's the biblical perspective of these creatures.

Answer 4

All that has been mentioned thus far is mere speculation, and the answer to your question is unknown.

Nephilim. People of great size and strength (see Numbers 13:33). The Hebrew word means ‘fallen ones’. In men’s eyes they were ‘the heroes of old, men of renown,’ but in God’s eyes they were sinners (‘fallen ones’) ripe for judgement.

Giants (Heb. NEPHILIM). Some suppose NEPHILIM is derived from NAPHAL, “to fall,” but that is not a normal Hebrew construction. Rather, it could be from PALA’ and mean “wonderful ones,” but it seems more likely that it is from PALAL, with meaning “separated ones,” meaning separated from the intermarriages verse 2 mentions and staying true to the Lord…In the background of Noah’s flood the population was increasing. Then the sons of God proceeded to look on the daughters of humankind and saw they were “good” (with reference to their appearance, thus, pleasing and desirable). They took wives, not on the basis of spirituality or relation to God, but on what was physically pleasing to them. Then “the Lord said, My spirit [the Holy Spirit] shall not always strive with man, for that he [humankind] also is flesh [with fleshly desires that come from the fallen human nature].

Goliath was a gentile, so in some respects he could be considered Nephilim, or rather a descendant of the Nephilim, since he was not originally born into the covenant, and could therefore not fall from the union with God that the covenant made possible. He was not a fallen one, but in many respects ressembled them. He was merely a misguided man to whom others admired and looked on as an example, although he was an enemy to the Hosts of Israel, he likely didn't know any better. He was used as a means to show not only to the Hosts of Israel the power of God and how it can work through a young boy, but it was also used to show how the One True God of Israel was mightier than all the idols and the multitude of gods that the Amorites, Canaanites and Philistines had.

Answer 5

No, the Nephilim were destroyed in the great flood. They were the mighty ones, born as offspring of the fallen angels.

Golaith was a giant, but not a Nephilim. There is nothing in the bible about him being half son of a fallen angel.

Answer 6

No, Goliath was not a Nephilim, they were killed at time of Noah and the flood along with everyone else, except Noah's family that was safe on the Ark.

Goliath was just a very large man compared to other men, an example would be, in basketball many of the players are much larger than the average man.

The giant from the city of Gath, champion of the Philistine army, who was killed by David. Goliath towered to the extraordinary height of six cubits and a span ( 9.5 ft). His copper coat of mail weighed 5,000 shekels 126 lb) and the iron blade of his spear weighed 600 shekels ( 15 lb). (1Sa 17:4, 5, 7) Goliath was one of the Rephaim; he may have been a mercenary soldier with the Philistine army.—1Ch 20:5, 8;

(Reph′a·im).

A tall people or tribe. There is uncertainty as to the meaning and origin of the name. Likely, they were called Rephaim because of being descendants of a man named Raphah. At 2 Samuel 21:16 ha·Ra·phah′ (literally, the Raphah) seems to employ the father’s name to stand for the entire giant race.

Nephilim

The Christian disciple Jude wrote about them when he mentioned “the angels that did not keep their original position but forsook their own proper dwelling place.” (Jude 6) Why did they come to the earth? What wrong desire did Satan put in their heart to get them to leave the fine positions they had in heaven?

The Bible lets us know when it says: “The sons of the true God began to notice the daughters of men, that they were good-looking; and they went taking wives for themselves, namely, all whom they chose.” (Genesis 6:2) Yes, the angels put on fleshly bodies, and they came to earth to have sexual relations with beautiful women. But such love affairs were wrong for angels. This was an act of disobedience. The Bible indicates that what they did was just as wrong as the homosexual acts of the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. (Jude 6, 7) What resulted?

Well, babies were born to these angels and their wives. But the babies were different. They kept growing bigger until they became giants, wicked giants. The Bible calls them “mighty ones who were of old, the men of fame.” These giants tried to force everyone to be bad as they were. As a result, the Bible says that “the badness of man was abundant in the earth and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only bad all the time.” (Genesis 6:4, 5) So Jehovah brought the Flood. The giants, or “Nephilim,” and all the wicked people were drowned. But what happened to the angels that had come to earth?

They did not drown. They put aside their fleshly bodies and returned to heaven as spirit persons. But they were not allowed to become part of God’s organization of holy angels again.

Since the time of the Flood, God has not permitted these demon angels to take on fleshly bodies, so they cannot directly satisfy their unnatural sexual desires. Yet they can still exercise dangerous power over men and women.

Answer 7

Genesis states that both giants and Nephilim existed at the same time so this must mean that they were 2 different races.

Answer 8

supposedly the fallen angels of satan took wives of the daughters of men and begat children of them and these giants were nephilem or the sons of the angels