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Strong's #7014 - קַיִן
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- Cain = "possession"
- n pr m
- eldest son of Adam and Eve and the first murderer having murdered his brother Abel
- Kenite = "smiths"
- n pr gent
- the tribe from which the father-in-law of Moses was a member and which lived in the area between southern Palestine and the mountains of Sinai
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1. of a people (see Sta G i. 151f. Mey Entstehung 115; compare Arabic proper name, of family 
Nabataean, Sinaitic proper name, masculine and feminine קינו; tribe of smiths?); — tribe of Mose's father-in-law Judges 4:11 (compare קֵינִי Judges 1:16), Καιναᵐ5 L Κειν; akin to Midian ( Numbers 10:29 P), settled among Amalekites in south of Canaan (see קֵינִי); prophesied against by Balaam Numbers 24:22 (קָ֑יִן; J E); — see also קֵינִי
2. locationהַקַּ֫יִן in southern Judah (a settlement of II.׳ק
1 ?); — Joshua 15:57, [Ζακαν]αειμ, A [Ζανω] Ακειμ, ᵐ5 L [Ζανου] Ακεν; possibly= Yª†în southeast from Hebron [Rob BR ii.85] (see Buhl Geogr. 162f. who, however, compare קִינָה Joshua 15:22).
III. קַ֫יִן proper name, masculine Cain, Kain eldest son of Adam and Eve (explanation Genesis 4:1 from קָנָה acquire; but in fact = II. ׳ק, as heros eponymos, according to We compare11 Sta G 285 ff. Bu Urg. 193 Holz Genesis 50f. especially Sta ZAW xiv (1894), 250 ff.; xv (1895), 157 ff., Che Ency.Bib.CAIN); — ׳ק Genesis 4:1,2,3,5 (twice in verse); Genesis 4:8 (twice in verse); Genesis 4:9,13,15 (twice in verse); Genesis 4:16,17, קָ֑יִן Genesis 4:6; Genesis 4:24; Genesis 4:25 (all J).
קַיִן m.
(1) a spear, 2 Samuel 21:16.
(2) [Cain], pr.n.
(a) of the fratricide son of Adam. Allusion is so made to the etymology in Genesis 4:1, that קִין would seem to be the same as קָנָה, “she bare Cain (a creature [rather a possession, see קָנָה ]), and said, I have created [rather possessed or acquired] a man by the help of Jehovah” [of course this is the true derivation].
(b) of the tribe of the Kenites, Numb. 24:22 Judges 4:11 see קֵינִי.
(c) of a town of the tribe of Judah, with the art. Joshua 15:57.
