Tubal-cain
תּוּבַל־קַ֫יִןStrong’s H8423tuval qayin (tu-val qa-yin)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tuval qayin is the Hebrew word usually translated “tubal-” and “cain”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.4.22
How it's translated
- tubal- 2
- cain 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
תּוּבַל־קַ֫יִן tuval qayin · Tubal-cain
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.4.22; son of: Lamech (H3929) and Zillah (H6741); brother of: Jabal (H2989), Jubal (H3106) and Naamah (H5279) § Tubal-cain = "thou will be brought of Cain" son of Lamech by his wife Zillah and the first worker in metal
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.