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# קֵינָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7018

**Cainan** — used 6 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

Cainan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7018/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֵינָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7018/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a Sethite (Sab. n.pr. dei קינן CISiv, no. 8, 1. 2);—Gn 5:9, 10, 12, 13, 14 1 Ch 1:2; Καιναν.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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: Kenan (5); of Kenan (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.2/#tree)

קֵינָ֥ן מַהֲלַלְאֵ֖ל יָֽרֶד׃

*Word for word:* Kenan Mahalalel Jared

*JPS 1917:* Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared;

[Genesis 5:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.5.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.5.9/#tree)

וַֽיְחִ֥י אֱנ֖וֹשׁ תִּשְׁעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת־קֵינָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.lived Enosh ninety year\[s\] and he.fathered (et) Kenan

*JPS 1917:* And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Kenan.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7018.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7018/): 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).