Giants] Our English word Giant, cometh of the Greeke word Gigas, and that signifieth one borne of the earth: so fabulous antiquitie reporteth of a sort of mighty men, monstrous in their manners, and making warre against heaven. Macrob. Saturn. lib. 1. cap. 20. For particular Giants by name we read of Goliah and his greatnesse, 1 Samuel 17:1, 4, 5. Of Og of the race of ancient Giants, Deuteronomy 3:11. who is said to remaine of the remnant of the Giants before the flood, (a the Jewes faine) that what with his owne height and the height of an hill was saved from drowning in the Deluge: but he was a mighty Tyrant of a later rise and race, as of wicked Cham; and he is said to be left as a remnant in that Countrey where all but himselfe were destroyed, or driven out, of Ishbibeob, 2 Samuel 21:16. who is said to be the sonne of the Giant, or Rapha, as in the Margine (whence are the Lephaims, Genesis 14:5.) which signifieth to cure; as some render it, who will have a Giant to be so called by the contrary, as in Latine mons a non movendo, a mountaine; lucus a non lucendo, a grove; bellum quasi minime bellum, warre; but it signifieth sound, also strong, potent, boisterous: the word here used is nephilim, which some take in a good sense, and make the nephilim to be men of honourable note and renoune: it is derived of the radix aphal, which signifieth he hath fallen: and so we may take them for men of stature, mightie in power, fierce of nature, Apostates from God, fallen from true Religion, and falling upon such as were weaker then themselves with Tyrannicall violence and oppression. See Job 16:14. of renoune] To be renouned is to be named againe; so that men of renoune are those whose names are iterated, who are often mentioned, or much spoken of: so are such persons who are either notable or notorious for any eminent difference from ordinary men.