noun · masculine
kain
Strong’sG2535
Cain
stem kain-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Καίν
(Τ, Κάϊν), ὁ, indecl. (in FlJ, Κάϊς, -ιος), (Heb. קַיִן; Ge 4:1),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2535 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkah'-in
Cain, (i.e. Cajin), the son of Adam
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesCain.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(Τ, Κάϊν), ὁ,
indecl.
(in FlJ, Κάϊς, -ιος), (Heb. קַיִן;
Cain:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kain1×Κάϊν | kain |
| object accusative | kain1×Κάϊν | kain |
| direct address vocative | kain | kain |
| of, belonging to genitive | kain1×Κάϊν | kain |
| to, for dative | kain | kain |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
kain“Cain”subjectnominative singular1×
1 John 3:12ouk kathōs Kain ek tou ponērou ate kai sfazata …… murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds …
kain“Cain”objectaccusative singular1×
Hebrews 11:4Pistia polloteran thusian Habel para Kain prosferata to theo, dia hau marturita …… offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended …
kain“Cain”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Jude 1:11ouai autoi, hoti ta hoda tou Kain poreuila, kai ta plana tou Balaam …… They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed for profit into …