Ἀμιναδάβ
Cainan
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Every verse where G284 appears in the Book of Luke — 1 distinct verse. 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
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.
Αμιναδαβ — transliterated Aminadáb — is a Greek name carrying the sense “Cainan.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. Its uses cluster heavily in Matthew (50% of all occurrences). Debuting at Matthew 1:4, it then recurs through the corpus. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G284 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.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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) 1 verse · 50%
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: Aminadab 2×
- American Standard Version: Amminadab 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Amminadab 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Amminadab 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G284 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G284 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G284 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G284 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 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.
- Amminadab = "one of the prince's people"
- an ancestor of Christ
Word origin
Derived from עמינדב (ʻAmmîynâdâb) (H5992) — Amminadab.
Of hebrew origin [ H5992 ]; Aminadab an Israelite : - Aminadab.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G284 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ἀμιναδὰβ Aminadàb | Noun, Proper, indeclinable | Matthew 1:4 | 2 |
| Ἀδμεὶν Admeìn | Noun, Proper, indeclinable | Luke 3:33 | 1 |
| Ἀμιναδάβ Aminadáb | Noun, Proper, indeclinable | Matthew 1:4 | 1 |
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 Αμιναδαβ appears 27 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 25 verses in 8 books.
- 27
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 25
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 6:23 αμιναδαβ
- Numbers 1:7 αμιναδαβ
- Ruth 4:19 αμιναδαβ
- 1 Samuel 7:1 αμιναδαβ
- 2 Samuel 6:3 αμιναδαβ
- 1 Chronicles 2:10 αμιναδαβ
- Esther 2:7 αμιναδαβ
- Song of Solomon 6:12 αμιναδαβ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G284) 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.
- Exodus 6:23 αμιναδαβ Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
- Numbers 1:7 αμιναδαβ Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
- Numbers 2:3 αμιναδαβ Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
- Numbers 7:12 αμιναδαβ He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah,
- Numbers 7:17 αμιναδαβ and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
- Numbers 10:14 αμιναδαβ In the first [place] the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
- Ruth 4:19 αμιναδαβ and Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab,
- Ruth 4:20 αμιναδαβ and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon,
- 1 Samuel 7:1 αμιναδαβ The men of Kiriath Jearim came, and fetched up the ark of Yahweh, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 16:8 αμιναδαβ Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this.
- 1 Samuel 31:2 αμιναδαβ The Philistines followed hard on Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
- 2 Samuel 6:3 αμιναδαβ They set the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in the hill: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
- 1 Chronicles 2:10 αμιναδαβ Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
- 1 Chronicles 2:13 αμιναδαβ and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,
- 1 Chronicles 6:7 αμιναδαβ Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub,
- 1 Chronicles 8:33 αμιναδαβ Ner became the father of Kish; and Kish became the father of Saul; and Saul became the father of Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
- 1 Chronicles 9:39 αμιναδαβ Ner became the father of Kish; and Kish became the father of Saul; and Saul became the father of Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
- 1 Chronicles 10:2 αμιναδαβ The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
- 1 Chronicles 13:7 αμιναδαβ They carried the ark of God on a new cart, [and brought it] out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.
- 1 Chronicles 15:10 αμιναδαβ of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers one hundred twelve.
- 1 Chronicles 15:11 αμιναδαβ David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
- Esther 2:7 αμιναδαβ He brought up Hadassah, who is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.
- Esther 2:15 αμιναδαβ Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.
- Esther 9:29 αμιναδαβ Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.
- Song of Solomon 6:12 αμιναδαβ Without realizing it, My desire set me with my royal people's chariots. Friends
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G284) 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.