קֵינָ֥ן מַהֲלַלְאֵ֖ל יָֽרֶד
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 1:2
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 1:2 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
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World English Bible Public Domain
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
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King James Version Public Domain
Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
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World English Bible Public Domain
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
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King James Version Public Domain
Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Kenan, Mahalaleel, Iered,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Cainan, Malaleel, Jared,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,
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Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
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Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared;
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קֵינָ֥ן
Qêynân
H7018
“Kenan”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 6× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 5:9
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Kenan = "possession"
- son of Enosh and father of Mahalaleel
- also 'Cainan'
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- words
- 3
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is קֵינָ֥ן Kenan H7018 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
קֵינָ֥ן Kenan H7018 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 nouns
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 3 words from the Hebrew and 4 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 3 Hebrew tokens and 3 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Cross-references
3Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 1:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Luke 3:37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,
- Genesis 5:12–20 Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.
- Genesis 5:9 Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.
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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καιναν μαλελεηλ ιαρεδ
and Cainan, Maleleel, Jared,
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 3 words (3 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Qêynân (“Kenan”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Kenan” (Qêynân) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Genesis 5:9 shares the word «Kenan» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 3 Hebrew ↔ 3 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- 3 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 3 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 1:2 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.