קַיִןQayin

קַ֫יִן: 1.

Pronunciation: kah'-yin · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7014

Meanings

tribe of Mose's father-in-law (Judges 4:11; Judges 1:16; Numbers 10:29)

2. in southern Judah (a settlement of II. ׳ ק 1?) (Joshua 15:57; Joshua 15:22)

קַ֫יִן: proper name, masculine: Cain (Genesis 4:1; Genesis 50:1-200; Genesis 4:2; Genesis 4:3; Genesis 4:5)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 19 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 4:1 Now Adam had sexual relations with his wife, Eve, and she became pregnant. When she gave birth to Cain, she said, “With the Lord’s help, I have produced a man!”
  • Genesis 4:2 Later she gave birth to his brother and named him Abel. When they grew up, Abel became a shepherd, while Cain cultivated the ground.
  • Genesis 4:3 When it was time for the harvest, Cain presented some of his crops as a gift to the Lord.
  • Genesis 4:5 but he did not accept Cain and his gift. This made Cain very angry, and he looked dejected.
  • Genesis 4:6 “Why are you so angry?” the Lord asked Cain. “Why do you look so dejected?
  • Genesis 4:8 One day Cain suggested to his brother, “Let’s go out into the fields.” And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother, Abel, and killed him.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).