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The Greek Anax-Biblical Anak connection probably predates either alphabet. There are two scenarios.

In one theory, the Philistines were descended from a faction of the Sea People invaders of Egypt that caused the Bronze Age collapse, and were closely related to the Myceneans, and so their leaders were called Wanax or Anaks. The meaning of the word was forgottent as the Philistines integrated with the local Semitic culture, which the Hebrews were emerging from concurrently, and turned into a name for a dynasty and then eponymous ancestor of the people living in the area, Anak. That figure got integrated into the Israelite myth of their nation's founding.

In the other, where a bit more historicity is attributed to the biblical stories, Anak is what the Proto-Indo-Europeans who came crashing into Europe and the Middle East with the first domesticated horses and chariots called their leaders. The Greeks retained the title into the Bronze Age and Iron Age, whereas in the area around Israel, it became a tribal name with an eponymous ancestor that the Isrealites bumped into when they entered the area.