“... Although the original meaning of the word “Nephilim” referred to the enormous size of these beings, already in the Bible we find evidence that it was understood as though formed from the root n-f-l, “to fall,” and referred to the descent to Sheol, the underworld. The prophet Isaiah relates a satirical dirge that was also based on a myth of the fall of heavenly beings in which a Babylonian king sees himself as a divine being. In it, Isaiah rejoices at the failure of one who thought he could ascend to the heavens and thus achieve immortality: How are you fallen [nafalta] from heaven, O Shining One, son of Dawn! How are you felled to earth, O vanquisher of nations! Once you thought in your heart, “I will climb to the sky; Higher than the stars of God I will set my throne. I will sit in the mount of assembly, on the summit of Zaphon: I will mount the back of a cloud—I will match the Most High.” Instead, you are brought down to Sheol, to the bottom of the Pit. (14:12–15) ...”