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# קַיִן

Biblical Hebrew

**Cain** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Cain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5d9_5b4_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קַ֫יִן²: n.pr. gent. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5d9_5b4_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. gent. (v. StaG i. 131 f. MeyEntstehung 115; cf. Arabic n.pr.fam. قَيْن; Nab. Sin. n.pr.m. et. f. קינו; tribe of smiths?);—tribe of Moses’ father-in-law Ju 4:11 (cf. קֵינִי 1:16), Καινα, 𝔊L Κειν; akin to Midian (Nu 10:29 P), settled among Amal. in S. of Canaan (v. קֵינִי); prophesied against by Balaam Nu 24:22 (קָ֑יִן; JE);—v. also קֵינִי. loc. הַקַּ֫יִן, in S. Judah (a settlement of ii. ק׳ 1?);—Jos 15:57, \[Ζακαν\]αειμ, A \[Ζανω\] Ακειμ, 𝔊L \[Ζανου\] Ακεν; poss. = Ẏŭḳîn SE. from Hebron \[RobBR ii. 85\] (v. BuhlGeogr. 162 f. who, however, cp. קִינָה v 22).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Kain (1); Kenite\[s\] (1); \[the\] Kenite\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:57](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.57/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.57/#tree)

הַקַּ֖יִן גִּבְעָ֣ה וְתִמְנָ֑ה עָרִ֥ים עֶ֖שֶׂר וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* (the) Kain Gibeah and Timnah cities ten and villages their

*JPS 1917:* Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.

[Numbers 24:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.22/#tree)

כִּ֥י אִם־יִהְיֶ֖ה לְבָ֣עֵֽר קָ֑יִן עַד־מָ֖ה אַשּׁ֥וּר תִּשְׁבֶּֽךָּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) (if) it.will.become (into) consuming \[the\].Kenite\[s\] until when? Asshur will it.take.you.captive

*JPS 1917:* Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted; How long? Asshur shall carry thee away captive.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5d9_5b4_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b7_5d9_5b4_5df/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).