קין
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Hebrew[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly from the verb קָנָה (kanáh, “to get, to create”)
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /ˈka.jin/
Audio (file)
Proper noun[edit]
קַיִן • (káyin) [pattern: קֶטֶל]
- Cain, the son of Adam.
- Tanach, Genesis 4:1, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
- וְהָאָדָם יָדַע אֶת חַוָּה אִשְׁתּוֹ וַתַּהַר וַתֵּלֶד אֶת קַיִן
- And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain
- A collective term for the Kenites, a biblical ethnic group.
See also[edit]
- הֶבֶל (Hével)
References[edit]
- H7014 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- For the less common biblical meaning "create," Iain Provan (10 May 2016). Discovering Genesis: Content, Interpretation, Reception. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 99. →ISBN.
- For the term as a collective for Kenites, Ruth W. Mellinkoff (29 April 2003). The Mark of Cain. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 150. →ISBN.
Yiddish[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old High German kinni, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
קין • (kin) m, plural קינס (kins)
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
קין • (Kayn) m
Categories:
- Hebrew terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hebrew terms with audio links
- Hebrew lemmas
- Hebrew proper nouns
- Hebrew terms in the pattern קֶטֶל
- Hebrew terms with quotations
- he:Biblical characters
- Yiddish terms inherited from Old High German
- Yiddish terms derived from Old High German
- Yiddish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Yiddish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Yiddish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Yiddish lemmas
- Yiddish nouns
- Yiddish masculine nouns
- Yiddish terms borrowed from Hebrew
- Yiddish terms derived from Hebrew
- Yiddish proper nouns
- yi:Anatomy
- yi:Body parts
- yi:Face
- yi:Biblical characters