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Κάϊν

Káïn · G2535 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Person

Meanings

  1. Cain

    The first son of Adam and Eve and the brother of Abel

    Examples

    Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he was attested to be righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.

    1 John 3:12 not as Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And for what reason did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

    Jude 1:11 Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have given themselves up to the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
קַיִן Qayin · H7014 · point of spear, spearhead, Cain
Hebrew proper name for the same biblical person (firstborn son of Adam and Eve, who killed his brother Abel); standard translation equivalent used in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 4)
Semantic domains 1 entry
Cain93.206
In 1 John 3:12, believers are told, “not as Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother,” naming this first murderer directly.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (WH Κάϊν (cf. Ἰ´, ἰ at the end)), ὁ, indeclinable (in Josephus with a Greek ending, Καις,…
(WH Κάϊν (cf. Ἰ´, ἰ at the end)), ὁ, indeclinable (in Josephus with a Greek ending, Καις, Καιτος; Hebrew קַיִן i. e. a spear, although the author of Genesis, , derives it from קָנָה to produce, beget, acquire, so that it is equivalent to קִנְיָן, Ps 104:24 (cf. B. D. American edition under the word)), Cain, the fratricide, the first-born son of Adam: Heb 11:4; 1 Jn 3:12; Jude 1:11.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Persons3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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