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Goliath

Time-period: David-fångenskapen (1000 – 586 f.Kr.)
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Alt. names/spellings: Goliath



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Goliath H1555
גׇּלְיַת (Goljat)
6 times in OT
Total    6 times

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And a champion (one who stands between two – Hebr. benajim) came out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath from Gath [present-day Tell Safi], whose height was 6 cubits and 1 span [i.e., nearly 3 meters].
[A standard cubit is 44.5 cm and a span is 23 cm (half a cubit, the measurement between the thumb and little finger of an outstretched hand), which gives a height of 2.9 meters! The Greek translation Septuagint tones down the measurement and writes 4 cubits instead of 6. However, the measurement in the Hebrew text is not unreasonable. The tallest man in modern times, Robert Wadlow (1918-1940), was 2.72 m tall – only 20 cm shorter than Goliath. Egyptian letters from (Papyrus Anastasi I) from the 13th century BC describe terrifying Canaanite warriors who were 2.7 meters tall. Two female skeletons, each just over 2 meters tall, have been found in the Jordan Valley at Tell Saidije (probably biblical Tsaretan).]
And while he was talking with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine from Gath, named Goliath, came out from the ranks of the Philistines and spoke the same words, and David heard them.
The priest replied, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah (the Valley of Terebinth) [see 1 Sam. 17]; behold, it is wrapped in a cloth and placed behind the ephod [see Ex. 28:6–14]. If you want it, take it, for there is nothing else here." And David said, "There is nothing like it; give it to me."
And he inquired of the Lord (Yahweh) for him, and gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of the Philistine Goliath."
And there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gov. And Elhanan, the son of Jaare-Oregim, the Bethlehemite, struck down Goliath, whose spear had a shaft like a weaver's beam. [In 1 Chron. 20:5 it is clarified that this was a brother of the Goliath whom David had previously struck down, see 1 Sam. 17.]
Once again there was a battle with the Philistines. Elhanan, the son of Jair, killed Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver's beam.