NEPHILIM

  

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NEPHILIM

Definition: NEPHILIM

NEPHILIM

Noun plural

1. Giants.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



Specialty Definitions: NEPHILIM

DomainDefinitions

Bible

Nephilim (Gen. 6:4; Num. 13:33, R.V.), giants, the Hebrew word left untranslated by the Revisers, the name of one of the Canaanitish tribes. The Revisers have, however, translated the Hebrew gibborim, in Gen. 6:4, "mighty men." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Nephilim

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Nephilim (Hebrew for "the fallen ones") were a race of giants who were fathered by angels who had left heaven to mate with mortal women. There are two clear biblical references to the Nephilim, one at Genesis 6:1-4 and the other in the Book of Numbers 13:33; the story of the Nephilim is chronicled more fully in the apocryphal Book of Enoch.

The Anakim and the Rephaim, which are mentioned in the books of Deuteronomy and Joshua, are races of giants which descended from the Nephilim. There are also allusions to these descendants in the apocryphal books of Judith, Sirach, Baruch, and the Wisdom of Solomon. Originally published in 1992 by the French company Multisim, Nephilim is a role-playing game about powerful elemental entities reincarnating into human beings. This first edition used the Chaosium "Basic Role Playing" principles, and was translated into English by this american company.

Since then, Nephilim had two other editions :

  • the second edition was still akin to the BRP system
  • the third edition uses a radically different system, descriptor-based

    Besides the Nephilim (elementals of Fire, Earth, Air, Water and Moon), the players can play Selenim (elemental "Vampires" of the Dark Moon) or Ar-Kaïm (Astrological unstable mutants, introduced in the Third Edition).

    A few human conspiracies exist, most of them opposed to the Nephilim and their cousins :

  • The Templars (masters of the world, love to enslave the Nephilim)
  • The Mysteries (former servants of the Nephilim)
  • The Synarchy (technocrats)
  • The Rose+Croix (occultists)
  • Bohemians (allies of the Nephilim)

    • Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nephilim."

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    Commercial Usage: NEPHILIM

    DomainTitle

    Books

    • Character Dossiers: Nephilim (reference)

    • Chronicle of the Awakenings: A Guide to Past Lives for Nephilim (reference)

    • Gamemaster's Veil: Nephilim (reference)

    • Nephilim (reference)

    • Nephilim Saga Episode 1: Beyond the Stars (reference)

      (more book examples)

      

    Theater & Movies

    • Fields of the Nephilim - Revelations/Forever Remain (reference)

      (more DVD examples; more video examples)

      

    Music

    Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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    Usage Frequency: NEPHILIM

    "NEPHILIM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NEPHILIM" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
    Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
    100 Million Words    		Rank in English
    Noun (singular)100%3202,518

    Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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    Frequency of Internet Keywords: NEPHILIM

    The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
     
    ExpressionFrequency
    per Day

    nephilim

    		324

    field of the nephilim

    		86

    nephilim return

    		58

    nephilim bible

    		5

    nephilim song

    		4

    nephilim picture

    		4

    nephilim ufo

    		3

    field lyrics nephilim

    		3

    nephilim xenosaga

    		2

    nephilim angel

    		2

    nephilim watcher

    		2

    dinosaur nephilim

    		2
    Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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    Rhyming with "NEPHILIM"

    Words rhyming with "NEPHILIM" (pronounced 'Neph"i*lim'): Glim, Lim, Plim, slim. (additional references)

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    Anagrams: NEPHILIM

    Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

    Words within the letters "e-h-i-i-l-m-n-p"

    -1 letter: hipline.

    -3 letters: hemin, imine, impel, limen, lipin, nihil, pilei.

    -4 letters: elhi, heil, helm, help, hemp, hili, impi, lien, lime, limn, limp, line, lipe, mien, mile, mine, mini, pein, pile, pili, pine, plie.

    -5 letters: elm, hem, hen, hep, hie, him, hin, hip, imp, lei, lie, lin, lip, mel, men, mil, nil, nim, nip, peh, pen, phi, pie, pin.

     Words containing the letters "e-h-i-i-l-m-n-p"
     

    +2 letters: delphinium.

     

    +3 letters: delphiniums, lifemanship.

     

    +4 letters: blimpishness, epithalamion, lifemanships, necrophilism, phillumenist.

     

    +5 letters: aminophylline, diphenylamine, entomophilies, lymphadenitis, necrophilisms, philhellenism, phillumenists.

    Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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    Alternative Orthography: NEPHILIM


    Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

    4E 45 50 48 49 4C 49 4D

    Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

    =

    Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

    Braille (1829, in France) (references)

    Morse Code (1836) (references)

    -.    .    .--.    ....    ..    .-..    ..    --

    Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

    Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

    01001110 01000101 01010000 01001000 01001001 01001100 01001001 01001101

    HTML Code (1990) (references)

    &#78 &#69 &#80 &#72 &#73 &#76 &#73 &#77

    ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

    004E 0045 0050 0048 0049 004C 0049 004D

    British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

    Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

    4839504243464347

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    INDEX

    1. Definition
    2. Usage: Commercial
    3. Usage Frequency
    4. Expressions: Internet     		5. Rhymes
    6. Anagrams
    7. Orthography
    8. Bibliography


      

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