קַיִן

Biblical Hebrew

Cain — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

Cain tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קַ֫יִן²: n.pr. gent. loc. tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.pr. gent. (v. StaG i. 131 f. MeyEntstehung 115; cf. Arabic n.pr.fam. قَيْن; Nab. Sin. n.pr.m. et. f. קינו; tribe of smiths?);—tribe of Moses’ father-in-law Ju 4:11 (cf. קֵינִי 1:16), Καινα, 𝔊L Κειν; akin to Midian (Nu 10:29 P), settled among Amal. in S. of Canaan (v. קֵינִי); prophesied against by Balaam Nu 24:22 (קָ֑יִן; JE);—v. also קֵינִי. loc. הַקַּ֫יִן, in S. Judah (a settlement of ii. ק׳ 1?);—Jos 15:57, [Ζακαν]αειμ, A [Ζανω] Ακειμ, 𝔊L [Ζανου] Ακεν; poss. = Ẏŭḳîn SE. from Hebron [RobBR ii. 85] (v. BuhlGeogr. 162 f. who, however, cp. קִינָה v 22).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Kain (1); Kenite[s] (1); [the] Kenite[s] (1).

In the verses

Joshua 15:57 · tree →

הַקַּ֖יִן גִּבְעָ֣ה וְתִמְנָ֑ה עָרִ֥ים עֶ֖שֶׂר וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃

Word for word: (the) Kain Gibeah and Timnah cities ten and villages their

JPS 1917: Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.

Numbers 24:22 · tree →

כִּ֥י אִם־יִהְיֶ֖ה לְבָ֣עֵֽר קָ֑יִן עַד־מָ֖ה אַשּׁ֥וּר תִּשְׁבֶּֽךָּ׃

Word for word: (dm) (if) it.will.become (into) consuming [the].Kenite[s] until when? Asshur will it.take.you.captive

JPS 1917: Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted; How long? Asshur shall carry thee away captive.

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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