Numbers 13:22
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22 (A)Going up by way of the Negeb, they reached Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, descendants of the Anakim,[a] were. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
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- 13:22, 28 Anakim: an aboriginal race in southern Palestine, largely absorbed by the Canaanites. Either because of their tall stature or because of the massive stone structures left by them, the Israelites regarded them as giants.
Judges 1:20
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20 (A)As Moses had commanded, they gave Hebron to Caleb, who then drove the three sons of Anak away from there.
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