This interpretation is the only one that has biblical support at decoding the the UFO subject, that is able to put 2 + 2 together on the big picture. All other interpretations overlook the details the Bible gives us and leave gaps of information to be explored. God wants us to look deeper into difficult subjects where the scriptures is sometimes overlooked and assumption takes over. The Hebrew root "Naphal" meaning "to fall." The Nephilim are the "fallen ones." A direct reference to the fallen angels who sired them. Some writers such as Ben Adam believe the word "Nephilim" refers to the fallen angels *themselves* and NOT the offspring." (So, the word Nephilim is referring to the fallen angels, and not the giants, which were the offspring) (From: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/bb/enoch04.htm) Etymology: The Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon gives the meaning of Nephilim as "giants." Many suggested interpretations are based on the assumption that the word is a derivative of Hebrew verbal root n-ph-l "fall." Robert Baker Girdlestone argued the word comes from the Hiphil causative stem, implying that the Nephilim are to be perceived as "those that cause others to fall down." Adam Clarke took it as passive, "fallen," "apostates." Ronald Hendel states that it is a passive form "ones who have fallen," equivalent grammatically to paqid "one who is appointed" (i.e. overseer), asir, "one who is bound," (i.e. prisoner) etc. According to the Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon, the basic etymology of the word Nephilim is "dub[ious]," and various suggested interpretations are "all very precarious." The majority of ancient biblical versions, including the Septuagint, Theodotion, Latin Vulgate, Samaritan Targum, Targum Onkelos and Targum Neofiti, interpret the word to mean "giants." Symmachus translates it as "the violent ones" and Aquila's translation has been interpreted to mean either "the fallen ones" or "the ones falling upon their enemies." In the Hebrew Bible: The term "Nephilim" occurs just twice in the Hebrew Bible, both in the Torah. The first is Genesis 6:1--4 NAS, immediately before the story of Noah's ark: "Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years." The Nephilim were 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." The second is Numbers 13:32--33 NAS, where the Twelve Spies report that they have seen fearsome giants in Canaan: "So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we had gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size. There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight." (source of notes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim)

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