Nephilim 的詞源

洪水前“神的兒子”和“人的女兒”的聖經後代； 其詞源不確定且備受爭議。

The only obvious meaning of this Hebrew term is "fallen ones" — perhaps, those who have come down from the realm of the gods; but then the word might conceivably reflect an entirely different, un-Hebraic background. [Robert Alter, "The Five Books of Moses," 2004]

這個希伯來語詞彙的唯一明顯含義是“墮落者”——也許是那些從神的領域降臨的人； 但這個詞彙可能反映了一個完全不同的、非希伯來語的背景。[羅伯特·奧爾特，《摩西的五卷書》，2004年]