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Καϊνάν

Kaïnán · G2536 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Cainan

    The son of Arphaxad in the genealogy of Jesus

    Examples

    Luke 3:36 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

  2. Cainan

    The son of Enos in the genealogy of Jesus

    Examples

    Luke 3:37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,

How it’s used In 2 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

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2 occurrences in 4 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
Cainan93.207a
In Luke 3:36, Luke's genealogy of Jesus reads, “the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah,” naming this earlier ancestor, the son of Arphaxad.
Cainan93.207b
In Luke 3:37, the same genealogy continues, “the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,” naming a distinct, earlier ancestor of the same name, several generations further back in the line.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (so R G L both 1 and 2; Tr Καιναν in 1 and Tr text in 2, but Tr marginal reading Καϊνάμ…
(so R G L both 1 and 2; Tr Καιναν in 1 and Tr text in 2, but Tr marginal reading Καϊνάμ in 2, WH Καϊνάμ 1 and 2; T Καϊνάμ both 1 and 2), ὁ (Hebrew קֵינָן a lance-maker (others, 'possessor' or 'possession')), Cainan;
1. son of Enos (Gen 5:9f): Lk 3:37.
2. son of Arphaxad, according to the Sept. of Gen 10:24; Gen 11:12; (1 Chr 1:18 Alex.), which Luke follows in . (See B. D., under the word.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Persons2 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.

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