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Kain

קַ֫יִןStrong’s H7014

qayin (qa-yin)

Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Qayin is the Hebrew word usually translated “cain”, “kenite” and “kain”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.

“And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.”
Genesis 4:1 KJV
Meaning
  1. § Kenite = "smiths"
  2. A man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.4.1
How it's translated
  • cain 13
  • and cain 1
  • to cain 1
  • for cain 1
  • kenite 1
  • kain 1
  • from kenite 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 13
  • Numbers 1
  • Joshua 1
  • Judges 1

4 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

קַ֫יִן qayin · Kain

§ Kenite = "smiths" n pr gent the tribe from which the father-in-law of Moses was a member and which lived in the area between southern Palestine and the mountains of Sinai

קַ֫יִן qayin · Cain

A man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.4.1; son of: Adam (H0121) and Eve (H2332); brother of: Abel (H1893) and Seth (H8352); father of: Enoch (H2585) Also named: Kain (Κάϊν "Cain" G2535) § Cain = "possession" eldest son of Adam and Eve and the first murderer having murdered his brother

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.