Kenan
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Kenan (also spelled Qenan, Kaynan, Caynam or Cainan) (; ; ) is an Antediluvian patriarch first mentioned in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.
Key facts
- Person.name
- Kenan
- Person.image
- Kenan, biblical figure, Son of Enos (4th generation of the Genesis patriarchs).jpg
- Person.caption
- Kenan as depicted in Jacques de Charron's Histoire universelle (1630)
- Person.native_name
- קֵינָן
- Person.native_name_lang
- he
- Person.spouse
- Mualeleth
- Person.parents
- Enos
- Person.children
- Mahalalelmore sons and daughters
- Person.relatives
- Seth (grandfather)Adam and Eve (great-grandparents)Cain (granduncle)Abel (granduncle)Irad (second cousin)Jared (grandson)Enoch (great-grandson)Methuselah (great-great-grandson)Lamech (great-great-great-grandson)Noah (great-great-great-great-grandson)
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Cain
- Gender
- male
- Child
- Mahalalel
- Father
- Enos
- Image
- Forefather Cainan - iconography by the author Dementiev Zh. From the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve.jpg
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- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- present in work
- Book of Jubilees
- Commons category
- Kenan (Biblical figure)
- date of birth
- 3679-00-00
- date of death
- 2769-00-00
- name in native language
- קֵינָן
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Encyclopedic overview
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Kenan (also spelled Qenan, Kaynan, Caynam or Cainan) (; ; ) is an Antediluvian patriarch first mentioned in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.
The Sefer ha-Yashar describes Cainan, the possessor of great astrological wisdom, which had been inscribed on tables of stone, as the son of Seth; i.e., the antediluvian Kenan grandson of Seth according to the Bible. He is revered within Islamic tradition as well.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kenan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.