THE GIANTS: Nephilim, Anakites,  Emites/Emims & Rephaim/Rephaites

NEPHILIM

Nephilim: Strong’s H5303 giants derived from H5307 napal which means to fall or outcast. Nephilim refers to the fallen ones.
Nave’s Topical Bible reference: ones falling upon hence violent ones; possibly giants.
The people fell out of fear, when they saw nephilim. Only in 2 verses in the Bible the word nephilim appears.
According to the 10 spies nephilim were the sons of Anak. Nephilim can thus also be Anakites.

Genesis 6:4 NKJV
There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Numbers 13:33 MEV
And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come from the giants, and in our eyes we were like grasshoppers, and so we were in their eyes."

ANAKITES
Anak: Strong’s H 6061: neck, 
Nave’s Topical Bible Reference: long necked, tall, descendant of Arba, ancestor of Anakites.

Numbers 13:22,27-28,33 MEV
They went up by the Negev and came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were (now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt). [27] They reported to him and said, "We came to the land where you sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is the fruit of it. [28] However, the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are fortified and very great, and also we saw the children of Anak there. [33] And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come from the giants, and in our eyes we were like grasshoppers, and so we were in their eyes."

Deuteronomy 1:28 MEV
Where shall we go up? Our brothers have discouraged our hearts, saying, 'The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and walled up to heaven. And moreover, we have seen the sons of the Anakites there.' "

Deuteronomy 2:10-11,21 MEV
(The Emites lived there in times past, a people as great and as many and as tall as the Anakites. [11] These people, as well as the Anakites, also were regarded as giants, but the Moabites call them Emites. [21] They were a great people, as numerous and tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them before the Ammonites. Then they dispossessed them and lived in their place,

Deuteronomy 9:1-2 MEV
Hear, O Israel! You are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities fortified up to heaven, [2] a great and tall people, the children of the Anakites, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, "Who can stand before the children of Anak?"

Joshua 11:21-22 MEV
At that time Joshua came and wiped out the Anakites from the hill country: from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua utterly destroyed them and their cities. [22] No Anakites were left in the land of the children of Israel, but they did remain in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.

Joshua 14:12-15 MEV
So now, give me this hill country that the LORD spoke about on that day. That day you heard that the Anakites live there in large, fortified cities. Perhaps the LORD will be with me, and I will drive them out, as the LORD said." [13] Then Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance. [14] Therefore Hebron became an inheritance of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite until this day because he completely followed after the LORD, the God of Israel. [15] The former name of Hebron was Kiriath Arba. Arba was the greatest man among the Anakites. Then the land had rest from war.

Joshua 15:13-14 MEV
According to the word of the LORD to Joshua, Caleb son of Jephunneh was given an allotment among the tribe of Judah: Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron). Arba was the father of Anak. [14] Caleb drove out from there three Anakites: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, descendants of Anak.

Joshua 21:11-12 MEV
They assigned them Kiriath Arba (Arba was the father of Anak), which is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, and the grazing lands around it. [12] (Now they had assigned the city's fields and its surrounding villages to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his property.)

Judges 1:20 MEV
They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, and he drove out the three sons of Anak.

EMIMS/EMITES
Strong’s H368: frightening beings
BDB Lexicon: terrors, inhabitans of Moab.
Nave’s Topical Bible Reference: A race of giants who were strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites.

They were invaded by 4 kings in the time of Abraham.
Genesis 14:5 MEV
In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, and the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

Deuteronomy 2:10-11 MEV
(The Emites lived there in times past, a people as great and as many and as tall as the Anakites. [11] These people, as well as the Anakites, also were regarded as giants, but the Moabites call them Emites.

REPHAIM/REPHAITES
Rapha: Strong’s H7497: mighty, sunken powerless ones, possibly shades, ghosts of the dead ones, giants, 
Rephaites: Nave’s Topical Bible Reference: mighty, giant people who lived in Canaan even before Abraham’s time.
Valley of Rephaim: Nave’s Topical Bible Reference: A fertile plain south of Jerusalem, 3 miles from Bethlehem.
The valley of the Rephaim was given to the Israelites.

Genesis 14:5 MEV
In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, and the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

2 Samuel 5:18-25 MEV
Now the Philistines had come and were spread out in the Valley of Rephaim. [19] So David asked the LORD, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will You give them into my hand?" The LORD said to David, "Go up, because I will certainly give them into your hand." [20] So David came to Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there. He said, "The LORD has breached my enemies before me like bursting tides." Therefore, he named that place Baal Perazim. [21] The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men carried them away. [22] Once again, the Philistines went up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim. [23] When David inquired of the LORD, He said, "You shall not go up. Circle around behind them and come against them opposite the trees. [24] When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the trees, pay attention, because at that point the LORD is going before you to defeat the army of the Philistines." [25] So David did just as the LORD commanded, and he defeated the Philistines from Geba as far as Gezer.

2 Samuel 23:13-14 MEV
Then three of the thirty chief men went down and came to David at the cave of Adullam during the harvest. Now the Philistine army was in the Valley of Rephaim. [14] At that time, David was in the stronghold while the Philistine garrison was at Bethlehem.

1 Chronicles 11:15-16 MEV
Now three of the thirty captains climbed down the rock to David at the cave of Adullam while the camp of the Philistines was set up in the Valley of Rephaim. [16] (At that time, David was in the stronghold, but a garrison of the Philistines was in Bethlehem.)

1 Chronicles 14:9-10 MEV
So the Philistines came and raided the Valley of Rephaim. [10] Then David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Should I go up against the Philistines? Will You give them into my hand?" The LORD answered, "Go up against them, and I will give them into your hand."

Isaiah 17:5 MEV
It shall be as when the harvestman gathers the corn and reaps the ears with his arm, and it shall be as he who gathers ears in the Valley of Rephaim.