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Nephilim In Popular Culture
Nephilim in popular culture are depicted as descendants or offspring of Demons (fallen Angels) and human women. The Nephilim of Genesis 6 have become a notable motif; this interlinks with other similar motifs regarding Christian demons in popular culture. Music * The band Fields of the Nephilim took their name from the Nephilim, as did vocalist Carl McCoy’s follow-up band The Nefilim. * The band AFI has a song entitled "The Nephilim" on their album '' The Art of Drowning''. * Brooklyn-based rap group Flatbush Zombies have a song called "Nephilim" on their second mixtape '' BetterOffDEAD''. * The band Katatonia has a song entitled "Nephilim". * The band Behemoth has a song entitled "The Nephilim Rising" from their 2004 album '' Demigod''. * Frank Black and the Catholics reference the Nephilim in a song entitled ," All My Ghosts" from their eponymous 1998 album. * The band DeBowers Monstrosity released song "Wraith of Nephilim" on October 28, 2020, part of a three song sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nephilim
The Nephilim (; ''Nəfīlīm'') are mysterious beings or people in the Hebrew Bible who are large and strong. The word ''Nephilim'' is loosely translated as ''giants'' in some translations of the Hebrew Bible, but left untranslated in others. Jewish explanations interpret them as hybrid sons of fallen angels. The main reference to them is in Genesis 6:1–4, but the passage is ambiguous and the identity of the Nephilim is disputed. According to the Book of Numbers 13:33, they later inhabited Canaan at the time of the Israelite conquest of Canaan. A similar or identical biblical Hebrew term, read as "Nephilim" by some scholars, or as the word "fallen" by others, appears in the Book of Ezekiel 32:27 and is also mentioned in the deuterocanonicals Judith 16:6, Sirach 16:7, Baruch 3:26–28, and Wisdom 14:6. Etymology The Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon (1908) gives the meaning of nephilim as "giants", and holds that proposed etymologies of the word are "all very precarious."B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
