How tall was Goliath?

Six million dollar ham · Apr 19, 2011

I'm looking at 1Samuel 17 and ponder this D vs G parable. Where does Goliath stack up in the all time list of giants?

Bigger than Andre?

Taller than Manute Bol?

Robert Wadlow - tallest man ever. No way he was taller than this guy.

gordon 2 · Apr 19, 2011

Goliath means "Exile"if I recall. Exile is tall and wide, much taller and wider than any man.

groundhawg · Apr 19, 2011

Per 1 Samuel 17:4 Goliath's height was six cubits and a span.

Six million dollar ham · Apr 19, 2011

groundhawg said:
Per 1 Samuel 17:4 Goliath's height was six cubits and a span.

1 in = 2.54 cm

Help me out...I don't know any other length conversions.

groundhawg · Apr 19, 2011

Sorry just messing with you on giving the cubits and a span - anyway a cubit was 18 inches and a span 6 inches so 6X18=108inches and add the 6 inches for a span a total of 114 inches which would be 9 feet 6 inches tall.

Have not been able to find any information on his weight.

christianhunter · Apr 19, 2011

Six million dollar ham said:
1 in = 2.54 cm

Help me out...I don't know any other length conversions.

How tall was Darwin? :rofl:

Ronnie T · Apr 19, 2011

How tall was Goliath laying flat on his back??

:yeah:

Six million dollar ham · Apr 19, 2011

christianhunter said:
How tall was Darwin?

I'm not sure why you lack the self-control necessary to resist the urge to cause trouble by injecting irrelevant, immature remarks such as the above into a thread. Do you know why?

Six million dollar ham · Apr 19, 2011

Ronnie T said:
How tall was Goliath laying flat on his back??

Why don't you start a new thread and quit trying to screw up mine?

Six million dollar ham · Apr 19, 2011

groundhawg said:
Sorry just messing with you on giving the cubits and a span - anyway a cubit was 18 inches and a span 6 inches so 6X18=106inches and add the 6 inches for a span a total of 115 inches which would be 9 feet 7 inches tall.

Have not been able to find any information on his weight.

Thanks. By the givens, I'm coming up with 108" + 6"=114"
which is 9ft 6 inches. At any rate, I wonder why we've never seen anybody that tall since. I find it suspicious that the biggest guy in the bible is the biggest to have ever lived.

gtparts · Apr 20, 2011

If it helps, he was a head shorter after he died.

rjcruiser · Apr 20, 2011

Six million dollar ham said:
Thanks. By the givens, I'm coming up with 108" + 6"=114"
which is 9ft 6 inches. At any rate, I wonder why we've never seen anybody that tall since. I find it suspicious that the biggest guy in the bible is the biggest to have ever lived.

What makes you think he was the biggest to have ever lived?

By your own admission, you've given us Robert Wadlow above. He was pushing 9 ft tall (officially, 8 ft 11.5 inches) when he died at the young age of 22 due to an infection. He was still growing.

Also, these men were from a certain family....genetic tree. They were almost all wiped out by Joshua....obviously, not all were as Goliath and 4 others are mentioned in I Samuel. But, as populations grew, battles were fought and races intermingled, the genetic purity of these giants would have been mixed with that of normal sized people. And over time, the height avg lowers.

Makes perfect sense to me....but again, I'm just an ignorant Bible believing Christian.

Six million dollar ham · Apr 20, 2011

rjcruiser said:
What makes you think he was the biggest to have ever lived?

By your own admission, you've given us Robert Wadlow above. He was pushing 9 ft tall (officially, 8 ft 11.5 inches) when he died at the young age of 22 due to an infection. He was still growing.

He was taller than Wadlow by precisely 7 inches. Wadlow's in the Guinness Book as tallest man. That's why I say he's the tallest. Tallest documented. Why aren't you making the same case?

Thanks for keeping Wadlow in the picture too. Poor guy was disabled by his size. It makes me think at 9'6", Goliath wouldn't have made much of a warrior. The bible is the truth though right? What's your take?

rjcruiser said:
Also, these men were from a certain family....genetic tree. They were almost all wiped out by Joshua....obviously, not all were as Goliath and 4 others are mentioned in I Samuel. But, as populations grew, battles were fought and races intermingled, the genetic purity of these giants would have been mixed with that of normal sized people. And over time, the height avg lowers.

Why rjcruiser, are you suggesting they evolved in some manner?

rjcruiser said:
Makes perfect sense to me....but again, I'm just an ignorant Bible believing Christian.

Six million dollar ham · Apr 20, 2011

gtparts said:
If it helps, he was a head shorter after he died.

It does not.

Rich Kaminski · Apr 20, 2011

He don't scare me. The bear in my avatar is bigger than he was!

rjcruiser · Apr 20, 2011

Six million dollar ham said:
He was taller than Wadlow by precisely 7 inches. Wadlow's in the Guinness Book as tallest man. That's why I say he's the tallest. Tallest documented. Why aren't you making the same case?

Because the GBWR wasn't established until the 50's and really doesn't go back that far or reach everyone on the world. It truly is a small % of the population.

Six million dollar ham said:
Thanks for keeping Wadlow in the picture too. Poor guy was disabled by his size. It makes me think at 9'6", Goliath wouldn't have made much of a warrior. The bible is the truth though right? What's your take?

Yes...the Bible is the truth. And Goliath wasn't much of a warrior after all, was he.

Six million dollar ham said:
Why rjcruiser, are you suggesting they evolved in some manner?

Of course genetic mutations and evolution occurs. You get a white person to breed with a black person and you get a baby with a lighter complexion. Is that too difficult for a scholar like you to understand?

Six...you really do love to troll around in here. You come off as holier than thou when confronted about it, yet your true motives can't be hidden. All it takes is one serious reply and your back to your usual self.

dawg2 · Apr 20, 2011

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

whitworth · Apr 20, 2011

I don't know about height wise

But I'm sure some Christian archers could compete on waist size. :banana:

Six million dollar ham · Apr 20, 2011

rjcruiser said:
Six...you really do love to troll around in here. You come off as holier than thou when confronted about it, yet your true motives can't be hidden. All it takes is one serious reply and your back to your usual self.

You must be hallucinating. I'm answering you, who appears to be the only one (on your team; besides groundhawg) offering up refutation or challenge, ie, debate. The only potstirring in this thread has been by christians like Christianhunter and RonnieT. I made sure to smack them into their place too. So please stay on topic here and quit trying to make every thread about me. I realize that's much easier than actually trying to engage in any meaningful discourse, but just resist the urge to go there.

At any rate, after further review, I retract any assertion that Goliath was tallest...Og, king of Bashan was clearly taller if his bedframe is any sort of guide.

Deuteronomy 3:11 - Only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaites. His bed was made of iron and was more than thirteen feet long and six feet wide. It is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.

Now that's a giant!

So here's another question - if Moses killed Og, why do Christians make such a fuss over David killing the much smaller Goliath? Why do we have a goliath beetle and not an og beetle?

Six million dollar ham · Apr 20, 2011

dawg2 said:
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

How old are you?

How tall was Goliath?

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