单词 | anak |
释义 | Anakn.α. (a) Old English–Middle English Enach, 1700s– Enac, 1800s Enok, 1900s– Enak; (b) plural Old English–Middle English Enachim, Middle English Enachym, 1500s Enakimes, 1600s Enachims, 1600s Enakims, 1600s– Enakim, 1800s– Enacim. β. (a) 1600s– Anac, 1600s– Anak; (b) plural late Middle English Anachym, 1600s– Anakims, 1800s– Anachim, 1800s– Anakim. Originally: a member of an ancient race of giants said to have lived in the southern part of Canaan. Hence: an exceptionally tall or strong person; someone or something of formidable size, power, or importance. Also more fully son of Anak.Anak is a figure described as the forefather of the Anakim in the Old Testament. ΚΠ α. β. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Num. xiii. 29 We sien there the kynrede of Anachym [E.V. a1382 Bodl. 959 Enachym].1610 M. Stoneham Treat. First Psalme 193 The children of Izraelli seemed but as Grashoppers compared with the Anakims, being Giants of a matchlesse stature.1611 Bible (King James) Joshua 1:20 He expelled thence the three sons of Anak.a1670 J. Hacket Abp. Williams (1693) II. clxxxxiii. p. 207 These pillars, which held up our Subsistence, were battered by the Sons of Anak [i.e. the Parliamentary army].1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lix. 311 The mysterious creature..is included among the class of cuttle-fish..but only as the Anak of the tribe.1925 Rotarian Sept. 39/1 When this Anak of a pipe was presented, ‘Hutch’ rose to the occasion by demanding a handful of tobacco from every smoker present.1995 C. DeLoach Giants 46 Giants occupied the hill country of northern Canaan, while the Anakim completely dominated the south.2004 Africa News (Nexis) 17 Sept. The arrival of reputable diamond manufacturing companies..is further indication that India and China are not the Anakims that our minds are constantly bombarded to believe.OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Deut. (Claud.) i. 28 Ðær is micel folc & maran men ðonne we..; ðær we gesawon Enachis suna. OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Josh. (Claud.) xi. 21 On ðære tide com Iosue & ofsloh Enachim on muntlandum Hebron..& heora burga adylegode. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Deut. ix. 2 Sonys of Enachim..no man may aȝeyn wiþstonde. 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Deut. ii. f.iiii The Emimes dwelt there in tymes past, a people greate, many and tal, as the Enakimes. 1613 S. Benefield Comm. 3rd Chapter Prophecy Amos xi. 180 In it were left Giants, those that were called Enakim. 1773 A. MacBean Dict. Anc. Geogr. Hethaei, a people, one of the seven ancient inhabitants of Canaan, who lived about Hebron, called Kiriath Arba; among whom were the Enakim, a gigantic people. 1882 W. J. B. Richards Man. Script. Hist. II. 147 Josue..assigned him Hebron, then occupied by the gigantic sons of Enok. 1937 J. Bithell Germany (ed. 2) xii. 415 The blonde and blue-eyed Amorites, the sons of Enak, who wandered by way of Syria to Babylon. 2014 G. F. Zoella Analytical-Literal Transl. of Old Test. II. 19 Caleb..rooted out from there the three sons of Enac. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.OE |
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