Gibborim (biblical)

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The Gibborim, whose Hebrew name translates as "Mighty Men of Renown," are mentioned in chapter six, verse four of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, as offspring of angels and human women:

There were giants in the Earth in those days; and 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.

Modern biblical scholarship suggests that the Gibborim are a remnant of pre-Jewish polytheistic religious beliefs.

Theosophy has created a set of beliefs around the Gibborim, and they also figure in New Age beliefs.