Qenan קֵינָן

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Qenan
קֵינָן
Transliterationqenan
Strong's numberH7018
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a man
GlossKenan
Occurrences6 in 6 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (5)

Qenan (Hebrew קֵינָן, Strong's H7018) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Kenan”. It occurs 6 times.

Definition

A man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.5.9;
son of: Enosh (H0583);
father of: Mahalalel (H4111); also called Cainan at Luk.3.37;
Also named: Kainan, Kainam (Καϊνάν, Καϊνάμ "Cainan" G2536H)
§ Kenan = "possession"
1) son of Enosh and father of Mahalaleel
1a) also 'Cainan'

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVcainan (5), kenan (1)
BSBkenan (6)

Verses

Every verse with Qenan, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

1 Chronicles

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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