Greek proper noun (a person) · G2536
Καϊνάν
Kainankah-ee-nan'
son of Enos; Son of Arphaxad
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Kaïnán
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2536is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2536
Cainan (i.e. Kenan), the name of two patriarchs
The King James renders it: Cainan.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Kainan is rendered "son of Enos; Son of Arphaxad". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "son of Enos".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 3:36the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
The first use
the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
Luke 3:36Καϊνὰμ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Luke.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: son of Enos, and Son of Arphaxad.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| son of EnosGen.5:9): Luk.3:37. | Tagged as
| WhereGenesis 5:9When Enosh was 90 years old, he became the father of Kenan. |
| Son of ArphaxadGen.10:24 (LXX): Luk.3:36.† (AS) | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 10:24Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber. |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- Καϊνὰμ2
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular2N-GSM-P
Luke
two uses
the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
- Καϊνὰμkainamnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: of Cainan
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan,
- Καϊνὰμkainamnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: of Cainan
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.