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Meaning, origin and etymology of the name Cain
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Cain Cainan Calah Caleb Calneh Cana Canaan Caphtor/ -im Casluhim Chaldeans Chesed Cozbi Cush |
Cain
Cain is the first son of Adam and Eve, the first human conceived the way we were all conceived, and also the first murderer. His victim is his brother Abel, who is the first human to die. Abel has no posterity. Cain's posterity never makes it past the flood of Noah. All humans alive today are descendants of Adam and Eve's son number three, named Seth. For his deed Cain is exiled and he flees to the land of Nod. |
qana (2039), get, acquire, create, as used in Genesis 4:1 where the name Cain is explained by Eve. The identical root 
