Finger

The finger appears in the UPDV as an anatomical detail in the war narratives of David's reign. The umbrella collects the single notice of a giant at Gath whose hands and feet each carried six digits.

Six Fingers at Gath

In the renewed Philistine wars, a man of great stature emerges as one of the descendants of the giant: "And there was again war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant" (2 Sam 21:20). The polydactyly is reported as a marker of his abnormal size and lineage rather than as a defect, sitting in a list of giants Israel's warriors confronted in the late wars with the Philistines (2 Sam 21:15-22).