Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai (sons of Anak)

Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai are the three named "children of Anak" living in Hebron when Moses sends twelve spies into Canaan (Numbers 13:22). The spies report that they saw giants there, the sons of Anak, who come of the giants (in Hebrew, the Nephilim), and that they seemed like grasshoppers beside them (Numbers 13:33). The report frightens the Israelites into refusing to enter the land.

The three names reappear when the land is taken. Joshua 15:14 says Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak from Hebron, and Judges 1:10 says the tribe of Judah slew them. Deuteronomy uses the Anakim as the standard for size and strength, "a people great and tall."

Hebron was a real Bronze Age city. The giant stature, however, belongs to the spies' report, and scholars generally read it as part of Israel's conquest traditions rather than as a description of real people. The three are known only from these biblical passages.