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cham´pi-un (×יש×Ö¾×”×‘Ö¼× ×™×, 'ı̄sh habeÌ„nayim): In , this unusual expression occurs in the description of Goliath. It means literally “the man of the two spaces,†“spaces,†or “space between,†and is perhaps to be explained by the fact that there was a brook flowing through the valley separating the two armies. In the word champion is the rendering of the Hebrew gibboÌ„r, “mighty man.