Cain Greek Name Meaning
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Cain greek name meaning. The name tubal cain occurs only once in the bible. There are also a town joshua 15 57 and a people numbers 24 22 named קין but translations commonly transliterate these as kain or kenite instead of cain. After this cain was banished to be a wanderer. In hebrew baby names the meaning of the name cain is.
The name cain is a hebrew baby names baby name. His mother s name is zillah and his sister s name is naamah his two half brothers are jabal and jubal. Now adam knew eve his wife and she conceived and bore cain and said i have acquired1 ק נ ית י kaniti a man from the holy one. In greek cain is καιν kain and abel is αβελ abel.
Cain s name in hebrew is ק י ן kayan strongs 7014 comes from ק נ ה strongs 7069 kanah meaning possessing or acquiring eve explicitly bases cain s name upon the notion of acquiring. These are in turn greek transliterations of the hebrew. The author of this story informs us that jabal and jubal are the fathers of all those who live in tents and have livestock and those who play the. The names cain and abel are latin english transliterations of the greek names as found in the septuagint 2 000 year old greek translation of the hebrew.
In the bible cain was the first murderer having killed his brother abel in a. Their mother is called adah. One popular theory regarding the name of cain connects it to the verb kana קנה qnh meaning to get and used by eve in genesis 4 1 when she says after bearing cain i have gotten a man from the lord in this viewpoint articulated by nachmanides in the thirteenth century cain s name presages his role of mastery power and sin. He is one of three sons of lamech the first genesis 4 22.
In the greek new testament the name cain is spelled καιν hebrews 11 4 1 john 3 12 jude 1 11.