Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
"Kiriath-arba ..." "This means `city of four.' It is unlikely that ARBA is a proper name."[24]  Behold the wisdom of the critics!  Against a fact clearly stated in the Holy Bible, such men offer their opinion instead of what the text says.  We will have none of this.  Of course, "The Rabbis have translated the place, `the city of four,' telling us that the `four' are Adam, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who were buried there."[25]  Still others suppose `the four' to have been four great giants who captured the city and took possession of it.  We are confronted with diverse opinions regarding the Septuagint (LXX) here.  Sizoo stated that it reads, "Kiriath-arba the metropolis (or mother city) of the Anakim."[26]  Boling tells us that, "Read with LXX, the Hebrew text of the O.T. has, `He was the great man among the Anakim.'"[27]  Our own copy of the Septuagint (LXX) reads, "It is the metropolis of the Anakim."[28]  Dummelow pointed out that the Septuagint translates a reference to this city in  Joshua 15:13 as, "the metropolis of Anak," and another similar reference in  Joshua 21:11 as "the metropolis of the sons of Anak," adding that: