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Cain

The eldest son of Adam and Eve. He was the first man who had been a child, and the first man born of woman. Cain is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “possession, or possessed.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • concordance
  • STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Key facts

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
G2535
Greek
Κάϊν · Kain
Name meaning
possession, or possessed According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

G2535

Κάϊν · Kain

Glosses: Cain

Καίν (Τ, Κάϊν), ὁ, indecl. (in FlJ, Κάϊς, -ιος), (Heb. קַיִן;

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Cain

possession, or possessed

Source: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

CAIN

the eldest son of Adam and Eve. He was the first man who had been a child, and the first man born of woman. For his history, as connected with that of Abel, see _Abel_.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

All Scripture references23 references

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Topical Bible

Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Cain

Meaning:
possession, or possessed

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources

Sources

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