Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H8423
תּוּבַל קַיִן
Tubal Qayintoo-bal' kah'-yin
Tubal-cain
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Tûwbal Qayin
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8423is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8423
Tubal-Kajin, an antidiluvian patriarch
The King James renders it: Tubal-cain.
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
Tubal Qayin is rendered "Tubal-cain". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Four of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 4:22And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
Genesis 4:22תּ֣וּבַל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's four uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Cain2
- Tubal-2
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תּוּר | tur | to spy | Uses24 |
| תּוּשִׁיָּה | tushiah | wisdom | Uses12 |
| תּוּב | tub | to return: return | Uses8 |
| תּוּגָה | tugah | grief | Uses4 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings 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
- קַ֔יִן1
- קַ֖יִן1
- תּ֣וּבַל1
- תּֽוּבַל־1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)4HNpm
Genesis
four uses
And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
- תּ֣וּבַלtuvalproper noun (a name)tagged: Tubal-
- קַ֔יִןkayinproper noun (a name)tagged: Cain
- תּֽוּבַל־tuval-proper noun (a name)tagged: Tubal-
- קַ֖יִןkayinproper noun (a name)tagged: Cain
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.