the father of the Anakims, was the son of Arba, who gave his name to Kirjath-arba, or Hebron, (Josh. xiv. 15.) Anak had three sons, Shebail, Ahiman, and Talmai, (chap. xv. 14. and Numb. xiii. 22.), who, as well as their father, were giants, and who, with their posterity, all terrible for their fierceness and extraordinary stature, were called the Anakims; in comparison of whom the Hebrews, who were sent to view the land of Canaan, reported that they were but as grasshoppers, Numb. xiii. ult. Caleb, affilated by the tribe of Judah, took Kirjath-arba, and destroyed the Anakims (Judges i. 20. and Josh. xv. 14.) in the Anakim year of the world 2559.