HaShev
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When discussing OT verses it's always important to keep the Hebrew Judaic definition of words, so yes malakhs (angels) referred to Rabbis and people of Israel who reflected or were messengers of that Essence we call G-d.Again......when addressing a topic found in the Holy Scriptures, consult the Word of God in relation to the topic "Nephilim".
The scriptures self define the majority of the words via the content and context in which those words are used.
Were the Nephilim created via a marriage between men and angels? Most people use the passage found in Genesis 6:4 and attempt to declare the Nephilim to be a race of physical giants that did not exist prior to the "Sons of God" engaging in sexual activity with the "Daughters of Men".
There are "2" meanings to the term Sons of God.......the context in which used defines which meaning should be applied. 1st term Sons of God: Can refer to angels as used in (Job 1:16). 2nd use of the term Sons of God: Can refer to righteous humans that worshiped God and obeyed His law (Hosea 1:10)
Some make the claim that angels married human females to create a hybrid race of giants......but the scriptures tell us according to Jesus that angels do not marry, "For when they rise from the dead (and exist in spirit form only as are the angels of heaven spirits), they (the spirits) never marry or are given in marriage, BUT ARE LIKE THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN." -- Mark 12:25
Its true that the term Nephilim can mean a physical race but it can also mean GIANTS as in fame or stature.....as he was a giant among men.
Read the passage of Genesis 6:4 "There were giants on the earth in those days, AND ALSO AFTERWARDS, when the Sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. THOSE WERE THE MIGHTY MEN, MEN WHO WERE OF OLD.........."MEN OF RENOUN.". These MIGHTY MEN were of OLD and preexisted any marriage arrangements presented in Genesis 6:4 These "OLD NEPHILIM" existed as men of RENOUN: aka, WELL KNOWN from the times of old.
The time frame details the fact that the Nephilim (Men of Renoun) came first and already existed in "THOSE DAYS". Then the sons of God married the daughters of men.
The text when considered in its contextual integrity in a reasonable and logical fashion (taking into account all the scriptures have say about Angels, Nephilim, the sons of God, and the daughters of men) concludes: That the RIGHTEOUS people who worshiped and obeyed God intermarried with the daughters of men (worldly, atheists), as stated clearly in the very next verse.
Genesis 6:5 "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great on earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually."
HOWEVER, you always use the Tanakh in English translation of OT verses not the Roman created religion version and interp.
The Tanakh uses "sons of the nobles would come to the daughters of man" not sons of God nor does it mention fallen Malakhs.
Who were the Nobles?
Probably the sons of the sons of Noah.
Remember I mention the sons of Ham, who became the detestable Jebusites, which later inhabited Germany and Denmark, so the warning is deeper then one can imagine, if that is who the nobles are in Genesis 6.