And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) (Numbers 13:22)
The name is thought by some to mean “the children of the neck,” and so to infer that they were a long-necked people. The root word is translated “chain,” that is, a chain for the neck (Judges 8:26; Prov. 1:9; S. of Sol. 4:9). The inference is that these people around Hebron were tall, wiry men (see Deut. 1:28; 9:2).