Bible Verses on Giants

Below is a collection of Bible verses that describe the Biblical giants in the Bible. This post is not intended to be a detailed polemic for giants but is instead a reference point for some of the relevant verses on this topic. Needless to say, Giants are found all throughout the Biblical narrative. Most of these verses explicitly describe giants. The final verse on Goliath does not technically call him a giant but his description leaves no doubt that he is in fact a giant.

1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

(Genesis 6:1-4)

33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

(Numbers 13:33)

11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites called them Emims. (Deuteronomy 2:11)

11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

(Deuteronomy 3:11)

4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

5 And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.

6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.

7 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.

(1 Samuel 17:4-7)