Og of Bashan
Jewish mythology (rabbinic–kabbalistic) · numen · Jewish mythology (rabbinic–kabbalistic) traditional religion; continuing · numen
MEASURED BY HIS OWN FURNITURE, AND THEN BY HIS OWN CUBITS. He is the one mortal-bodied figure in this batch and the one whose scale the tradition argues about — the later rabbis reading the bedstead in Og's cubits rather than ordinary ones, which changes the answer. Authored on what the sources give and no more; the vast Og haggadah was not reached in this pass.
Domains
- giant stature
- kingship of bashan
Sources
- Reference treatment of Og of Bashan: the giant king whose bedstead, if built in proportion to his size as most beds are, would put him between nine and thirteen feet in height, though later rabbinic tradition holds that the length of his bedstead was measured with his own cubits.