בראשית ו:ד פירוש: רש״י, רמב״ן, ספורנו ורד״ק

Rashi on Genesis

הנפילים THE GIANTS — Thy were called נפילים because they fell (נפלו) and caused the downfall of (הפילו) the world (Genesis Rabbah 26:7).
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Ramban on Genesis

THE NEPHILIM. Rashi comments: “[They were called nephilim because] they fell (naphlu) and caused the downfall (hipilu) of the world.” This is found in Bereshith Rabbah.50026:7. The masters of language501Found in R’dak. say that they [the Nephilim] were so called because the heart of man fell from fear of them. The same applies to the word ha’eimim.502Genesis 14:5. Eimah means terror. The Eimim thus induced terror into the hearts of those who saw them.
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Sforno on Genesis

הנפילים היו בארץ בימים ההם, these giants were not about until the last 120 years which G’d had assigned man as a grace period within which to do teshuvah וגם אחר כן, as well as thereafter, i.e. they did not repent and mend their ways at all.
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