"from his sling and hits Goliath in the center of his forehead, Goliath falls on his face to the ground, and David cuts off his head. The Philistines flee and are pursued by the Israelites ""as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron"". David puts the armor of Goliath in his own tent and takes the head to Jerusalem, and Saul sends Abner to bring the boy to him. The king asks whose son he is, and David answers, ""I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."" The Books of Samuel, together with the books of Joshua,"
"Goliaths believe that the shape of these markings reflects the destiny of an individual. Male Goliaths are usually bald, while females have long hair, usually brown, which they grow and braid to a great length. Goliaths generally live in mountainous areas, sometimes in small tribes atop the mountains, sometimes in caves alongside Dwarves. They can choose either Giant or Dwarven as a second language to reflect these two possible backgrounds. Despite their relationship to Giants, the two races share a great deal of enmity. Giants often make slaves of Goliaths, on the grounds that Goliaths are tougher than humans, and"
"giant Goliath, while still calling him David. In 2 Samuel 21:19 he is called Elhanan. ""Jew"" originally meant a person from the nation of Judah (called ""Judea"" by the Roman Empire), which came into existence after the reign of King Solomon, when the nation of Israel was divided in two. Those from Israel prior to then -- the Hebrew slaves in Egypt, as well as the Patriarchs from whom they descended –- were not ""Jews"" in this technical sense, but Jewish historians still refer to these earlier ancestors as Jews. The inhabitants of places prior to colonization can take on"
"Goliath (Marvel Comics) Goliath is a superhero comic book identity in Marvel Comics. The Goliath identity has been used by various superheroes. Henry ""Hank"" Pym was the first to adopt the Goliath name. Clinton ""Clint"" Barton is better known as the superhero Hawkeye; he used the Pym size-changing gas to adopt the Goliath powers and identity shortly after Hank Pym was Yellowjacket. He remained Goliath through the Kree-Skrull War, and briefly resumed using the identity during """". Dr. William ""Bill"" Foster was Pym's lab assistant, an African American who had an equally brief career as the Black Goliath and Giant-Man"
"goliath barbarian appeared in the ""Deathknell"" set (2005), and the goliath cleric of Kavaki appeared in the ""War of the Dragon Queen"" set (2006). Goliath (Dungeons & Dragons) Goliaths are a race related to the giants, in the ""Dungeons & Dragons"" fantasy role-playing game. Goliaths were introduced as a playable race in the 3.5e book ""Races of Stone"" (2004). Goliaths appeared as a playable race in the 4th edition ""Player's Handbook 2"". Goliaths appeared as a playable race in the 5th edition ""Elemental Evil Player's Companion"". They are the largest and heaviest of the playable races (but still classified as"
"Goliath (Dungeons & Dragons) Goliaths are a race related to the giants, in the ""Dungeons & Dragons"" fantasy role-playing game. Goliaths were introduced as a playable race in the 3.5e book ""Races of Stone"" (2004). Goliaths appeared as a playable race in the 4th edition ""Player's Handbook 2"". Goliaths appeared as a playable race in the 5th edition ""Elemental Evil Player's Companion"". They are the largest and heaviest of the playable races (but still classified as Medium-sized creatures), standing over 7 feet tall and weighing over 300 pounds. Goliaths have blueish-grey skin, which is covered in mottled blue markings; most"
"the leader of the Manhattan Clan. He is characterized as a strong, intelligent character with a firm sense of morality and has a short temper. Goliath had been named after the Bible giant Goliath by his human protectors some time before the beginning of the series—itself set in the concluding years of the 10th century on the coast of medieval Scotland — making him the only gargoyle character to have a name before their 1,000-year-long stone sleep (since Gargoyles themselves as a race never saw the point of having names). His relationship with other members of his clan, other Gargoyles"
"Goliath, he was strong and chosen for a leadership role at a young age. He leads a small group of gargoyles and humans in a resistance against an alien threat that has invaded the Earth. Little else is known of his character or similarities to his Biblical counterpart, as the series never came to fruition. Within the Marvel franchise, there is a character known as 'Doc Samson' (born Leonard ""Leo"" Samson), who was exposed to gamma radiation and gained incredible strength. As with most comic book heores there are multiple versions of this, however, a common trait seems to be"
"race"" as a more ""appropriately neutral, modern term"". Mongoloid Mongoloid () is a grouping of various peoples indigenous to Asia, North America, South America, and the Pacific Islands (with some exceptions). It is one of the outdated three races proposed by Georges Cuvier in the 18th century, the other two groups being Caucasoid and Negroid. Individuals within these populations often share certain associated phenotypic traits, such as epicanthic folds, sino- or sundadonty, shovel-shaped incisors and neoteny. The concept of ""Mongoloid"" races is historical referring to a grouping of human beings historically regarded as a biological taxon. It is today not"
"in their ancestry. The Gibberlings are a mass of pale, hunchbacked humanoids with pointed ears, black manes, and grinning faces. The Githyanki are a race of humanoids that are related to the Githzerai. The Githzerai are extraplanar humanoids that reside on the Plane of Limbo. The Gnolls are a humanoid race with hound-like muzzles and low intellect. The Goliaths are a 7 ft. race of humanoids that are related to the Giants. The Gripplis are a race of humanoid tree frogs. The Half-Elves are a race of creatures that are a result of a union between an Elf and a"
"to two different human species. The ""Adamite"" or Caucasian/Indo-European was a special divine creation whose history was recorded in Genesis; all other races were supposedly incapable of higher thought or cultural development. The Chinese, he claimed, were descended from Cain; all human civilisations not directly traceable to European influence had been created by an extinct ""Hamite"" Adamite race (as outlined in his last book The Builders of Babel. Non-white races were doomed to disappear before the divinely-decreed expansion of the Adamites. These two books on ethnology were influential to the Christian Identity movement and McCausland himself was an early proponent"
"there are of great size. We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.” However, the Book of Joshua, describing the actual conquest of Canaan in a later generation, makes no reference to such people living there. The Bible also tells of Gog and Magog, who later entered European folklore, and of the famous battle between David and the Philistine Goliath. While Goliath is often portrayed as a giant in retellings of the Biblical narrative, he is much smaller than other"
"with Ithaqua. They might also be further linked with Rhan-Tegoth and Aphoom-Zhah. Gnophkeh The Gnophkehs are a fictional race in the Cthulhu Mythos. They are humanoid cannibals described as being covered in coarse, matted hair with large protruding ears and proboscidean noses. They originally lived in Hyperborea and worshiped the Great Old One Rhan-Tegoth. But Rhan-Tegoth eventually forgot them when he entered a stone-like hibernation state. They were invaded and driven to the land of Lomar by the Tsathoggua-worshipping Voormis. ""The papyrus reputedly preserved the darkest secrets of the occult wisdom of the detested Gnophkehs, which name denoted the repulsively"
"(, ) of the antediluvian age. Joshua finally expelled them from the land, except for some that found a refuge in the Philistine cities of Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod (), thus the Philistine giants (Goliath) whom David encountered (2 Samuel 21:15-22 ) were descendants of the Anakim. Anakim Anakim ( ""‘Ǎnāqîm "") were described as a race of giants, descended from Anak, according to the Tanakh. They were said to have lived in the southern part of the land of Canaan, near Hebron (Gen. 23:2; Josh. 15:13). According to they inhabited the region later known as Edom and Moab in"
"of the race of Men. Elsewhere, Tolkien describes Hobbits as a ""variety"" or separate ""branch"" of humans. Within the story, hobbits and other races seem aware of the similarities (hence the colloquial terms ""Big People"" and ""Little People"" used in Bree). However, within the story, hobbits considered themselves a separate people. At the time of the events in ""The Lord of the Rings"", hobbits lived in the Shire and in Bree in the north west of Middle-earth, though by the end, some had moved out to the Tower Hills and to Gondor and Rohan. Tolkien believed he had invented the"
"Mongoloid Mongoloid () is a grouping of various peoples indigenous to Asia, North America, South America, and the Pacific Islands (with some exceptions). It is one of the outdated three races proposed by Georges Cuvier in the 18th century, the other two groups being Caucasoid and Negroid. Individuals within these populations often share certain associated phenotypic traits, such as epicanthic folds, sino- or sundadonty, shovel-shaped incisors and neoteny. The concept of ""Mongoloid"" races is historical referring to a grouping of human beings historically regarded as a biological taxon. It is today not widely used by anthropologists as its validity and"
"narrow definition which did not include either the ""Malayan"" or the ""American"" races. In 2018, the Mongoloid race, which included indigenous Americans, comprised 28% of the Earth's human population and Caucasoids comprised 21% of the Earth's human population. The first use of the term ""Mongolian race"" was by Christoph Meiners in 1785, who divided humanity into two races he labeled ""Tartar-Caucasians"" and ""Mongolians"". Johann Friedrich Blumenbach said that he borrowed the term ""Mongolian"" from Christoph Meiners to describe the race he designated ""second, [which] includes that part of Asia beyond the Ganges and below the river Amoor, which looks toward"
"Man (Middle-earth) In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fiction, such as ""The Hobbit"" and ""The Lord of the Rings"", the terms Man and Men refer to humankind – in contrast to Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, and other humanoid races – and does not denote gender. Hobbits were a branch of the lineage of Men. The Elves call the race of Men Atani in Quenya (one of the languages invented by Tolkien), literally meaning ""Second People"" (the Elves being the First), but also Hildor (Followers), Apanónar (After-born), and Fírimar or Firyar (Mortals). Less charitably they were called Engwar (The Sickly), owing to"
"Mongoloid race (including its offshoots the Malayan race, the American Indian race) and mixed-race people such as Eurasians, the bronze Mestizos, Mulattos, Afro-Asians, and Zambos in the lower middle ranks. However, the Japanese were considered honorary Aryans. In attempting to scientifically prove the racial inferiority of Slavs, German (and Austrian) racial scientists were forced to gloss over their findings which consistently found that Early Slavs were dolicocephalic and fair haired, i.e., ""Nordic"", while the South Slavic ""Dinaric"" sub-race was often viewed favourable. Nazis used the term ""Slavic race"", and considered Slavs to be non-Aryan The concept of a Slavic ""Untermensch"""
"Furthermore, In Josephus’ account of this story, he writes, ""Now there came down a man out of the camp of the Philistines, whose name was Goliath, of the city of Gath, a man of vast bulk, for he was of four cubits and a span in tallness…."" However, because the Masoretic Text was written in the original Hebrew language and was considered to be an older copy of the text, scholars used its translation for years, attributing to Goliath a height that surpassed even that of the tallest man ever recorded in medical history. With the discovery of the Dead"
"Hobbit Hobbits are a fictional, diminutive, humanoid race who inhabit the lands of Middle-earth in J. R. R. Tolkien’s fiction. They are also referred to as Halflings. Hobbits first appeared in the novel ""The Hobbit"", whose titular hobbit is the protagonist Bilbo Baggins. The novel ""The Lord of the Rings"" includes as major characters the hobbits Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took, and Meriadoc Brandybuck, as well as several other minor hobbit characters. Hobbits are also briefly mentioned in ""The Silmarillion"" and ""Unfinished Tales"". According to the author in the prologue to ""The Lord of the Rings"", hobbits are ""relatives"""
"century. Narrative formulae such as the settlement of battle by single combat between champions has been thought characteristic of the Homeric epics (the ""Iliad""), rather than of the ancient Near East. The designation of Goliath as a , ""man of the in-between"" (a longstanding difficulty in translating 1 Samuel 17) appears to be a borrowing from Greek ""man of the """" ()"", i.e. the space between two opposite army camps where champion combat would take place. A story very similar to that of David and Goliath appears in the Iliad, written circa 760–710 BCE, where the young Nestor fights and"
"emerged from the Indians. Gobineau's primary thesis was that European civilization flowed from Greece to Rome, and then to Germanic and contemporary civilization. He thought this corresponded to the ancient Indo-European culture, which earlier anthropologists had misconceived as ""Aryan""—a term that only Indo-Iranians are known to have used in ancient times. This included groups classified by language, for example the Celts, Slavs and the Germans. Gobineau later came to use and reserve the term Aryan only for the ""German race"" and described the Aryans as 'la race germanique'. By doing so, he presented a racist theory in which Aryans—that is"
"French, Portuguese, Spaniards, Italians, Romanians, and Greeks, i.e., those of what is called the Mediterranean race, which was regarded as another sub-race of the Caucasian race) in the upper middle ranks; and those of the Semitic race and Hamitic race (supposed sub-races of the Caucasian race) in the middle ranks (it was because the Jews, being Semites, were clever that they were so dangerous—they had their own plan for Jewish world domination, a conspiracy that had to be opposed by all thoughtful Aryans, declared the Nazis). Slavs such as Poles and Russians were not considered Aryans; and those of the"
"Giants (Greek mythology) In Greek and Roman Mythology, the Giants, also called Gigantes (""jye-GAHN-tees"" or ""gee-GAHN-tees""; Greek: Γίγαντες, ""Gígantes"", Γίγας, ""Gígas"") were a race of great strength and aggression, though not necessarily of great size, known for the Gigantomachy (Gigantomachia), their battle with the Olympian gods. According to Hesiod, the Giants were the offspring of Gaia (Earth), born from the blood that fell when Uranus (Sky) was castrated by his Titan son Cronus. Archaic and Classical representations show Gigantes as man-sized hoplites (heavily armed ancient Greek foot soldiers) fully human in form. Later representations (after c. 380 BC) show Gigantes"
"enough to defeat Emperor Daibazaal's forces. Thousands of years ago, GoLion was an arrogant robot who, after defeating several Beastmen, tried to challenge the goddess of the universe into battle, but failed. For GoLion's hubris, the goddess taught him humility by separating him into five pieces in the form of five lion robots that sailed through space and crash-landed on Altea, to lay in wait for those who would one day reawaken him to fight evil once again. The are a race of merciless individuals who even oppress their own people. They capture other planets and enslave their population, forcing"
"supposed to be the obvious challenger for Goliath, yet, David is the one who eventually defeated him. Also, Saul's armour and weaponry are apparently no worse than Goliath's (and David, of course, refuses Saul's armour in any case). ""David declares that when a lion or bear came and attacked his father's sheep, he battled against it and killed it, [but Saul] has been cowering in fear instead of rising up and attacking the threat to his sheep (i.e. Israel)."" 2 Samuel 21:19 tells how Goliath the Gittite was killed by ""Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite."" According to Baruch"
"Warlock, Death Knight, and Monk. Introduced in """", the goblins are diminutive, green-skinned humanoids native to Azeroth. Early in their history, goblins were an unintelligent race used as slave labor by a tribe of trolls on their home island of Kezan. Constant exposure to a rare ore called Kajamite caused them to develop into a hyper-intelligent race that soon overthrew their masters and created a new civilization. However, the supplies of the ore were eventually exhausted and facing a slow loss of their intelligence, the goblins took to trade and exploration in search of new deposits. During the Second War,"
"the populations of Europe, and the Mongoloid one, including the populations of East Asia. Thus, Carleton S. Coon (1939) included the populations native to all of Central and Northern Asia under the Caucasian label, while Thomas Henry Huxley (1870) classified the same populations as Mongoloid, and Lothrop Stoddard (1920) classified as ""brown"" most of the populations of the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, and counted as ""white"" only the European peoples and their descendants, as well as some populations in parts of Anatolia and the northern areas of Morocco, Algeria And Tunisia. Some authorities, following Huxley (1870), distinguished"
"had origins in the Fertile Crescent, as the Jews in Europe did. These peoples were often considered to be a distinct race. However, some antisemitic racial theorists of the time argued that the Semitic peoples arose from the blurring of distinctions between previously separate races. This supposed process was referred to as semiticization by the race-theorist Arthur de Gobineau. Gobineau himself did not consider the Semites (decedents of Shem) to be of a lesser race. He broke people up into three races: white, black, and yellow. The Semites, like the Aryans (and Hamites) came from Asia and were white. Over"
"biblical giants. The 1st-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, and the 1st-2nd-century BC Dead Sea Scrolls give Goliath's height as ""four cubits and a span,"" approximately 2.00 m or about six feet seven inches. The King James translation of the Bible reports the giant Goliath as ""six cubits and a span"" in height—about nine feet nine inches tall, (over 2.75 m) ( KJV), but the Septuagint, a Greek Bible, gives Goliath's height as ""four cubits and a span"" (~2.00 m). For comparison, the Anakites are described as making the Israelites seem like grasshoppers. See also Gibborim. Josephus also described the Amorites"
"traits belong to Gollum, who should never be confused with Sméagol. Sméagol would never dream of wielding power over those weaker than himself. He is not a bully. In fact, he is very loveable."" Elijah Wood, who portrayed Frodo in Jackson's films, called the incident ""horrifying"". Gollum Gollum is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He was introduced in the 1937 fantasy novel ""The Hobbit"", and became an important supporting character in its sequel, ""The Lord of the Rings"". Gollum was a Stoor Hobbit of the River-folk, who lived near the Gladden Fields. Originally known as Sméagol,"
"from them. In the 540s, they played a major role in the tribal wars against the Byzantines, until finally defeated by John Troglita. Procopius of Caesarea (""Vandalic War"" II.21.2 & II.28.47) calls them the Leuathae (), while Flavius Cresconius Corippus calls them Ilaguas and Laguantan. According to Corippus, they were still pagan, and worshipped Gurzil, who is identified as the son of Amun and of a cow (""Iohannis"" II.109–110). During the Islamic Middle Ages, Ibn Khaldun recorded that this tribal group were known as the Lawata or Louata, and was spread from the oases of Egypt's Western Desert through Cyrenaica,"