Καΐνάν
Cainan
Thayer's lists 3 entries for ‘Cainan’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Every verse where G2536 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 2 verses
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Cainan” is the headline sense of the Greek name Καιναν (Kaïnán). With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Luke, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Its earliest occurrence is Luke 3:36. See 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2536 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 2 verses 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Was the son of cainan 2×
- American Standard Version: Son of cainan 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Cainan 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Cainan 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2536 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2536 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2536 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2536 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Cainan = "their smith"
- the son of Enos, Gen. 5:9
- son of Arphaxad and ancestor of Christ, Lk 3:36
Word origin
Derived from קינן (Qêynân) (H7018) — Kenan.
Of hebrew origin [ H7018 ]; Cainan (that is Kenan ) the name of two patriarchs : - Cainan.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Cainan). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Possession; smith. (1.) The fourth antediluvian patriarch, the eldest son of Enos. He was 70 years old at the birth of his eldest son Mahalaleel, after which he lived 840 years (Gen. 5:9-14), and was 910 years old when he died. He is also called Kenan (1 Chr. 1:2).
(2.) The son of Arphaxad (Luke 3:36). He is nowhere named in the Old Testament. He is usually called the "second Cainan."
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(possessor)
+ Son of Enos, aged 70 years when he begat Mahalaleel his son. He lived 840 years afterwards, and died aged 910. (Genesis 6:9-14) + Son of Arphaxad, and father of Sala, according to (Luke 3:36,37) and usually called the second Cainan. The is nowhere named in the Hebrew MSS. It seems certain that his name was introduced into the genealogies of the Greek Old Testament in order to bring them into harmony with the genealogy of Christ in St. Luke's Gospel.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
possessor; purchaser
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word Καιναν appears 13 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 2 books.
- 13
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 5:9 καιναν
- 1 Chronicles 1:2 καιναν
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2536) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 5:9 καιναν Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.
- Genesis 5:10 καιναν Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:12 καιναν Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.
- Genesis 5:13 καιναν Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of sons and daughters
- Genesis 5:14 καιναν and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.
- Genesis 10:22 καιναν The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
- Genesis 10:24 καιναν Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.
- Genesis 11:12 καιναν Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah.
- Genesis 11:13 καιναν Arpachshad lived after he became the father of Shelah four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- 1 Chronicles 1:2 καιναν Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2536) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
