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title: קֵינָן — Cainan · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קֵינָן (7018), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: Cainan. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קֵינָן

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«קֵינָן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Cainan** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 6 times · **Key:** 7018 · **BDB:** קֵינָן

### Glosses

Kenan (5); of.Kenan (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קֵינָן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7018/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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קֵינָ֥ן מַהֲלַלְאֵ֖ל יָֽרֶד׃

*Word for word:* Kenan Mahalalel Jared

*JPS 1917:* Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared;

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

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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.

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