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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(possessor). (1)
Son
of
Enos
(Gen. 5:9; Luke 3:36).
Kenan
(1 Chron. 1:2). (2) Son of
Arphaxad
(Luke 3:36).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
1.
Son
of
Enos
and
father
of
Mahalaleel
({vi 115-120}Gen. 5:9-14; Luke 3:37). Called
KENAN
in 1 Chronicles 1:2.
2.
Son of
Arphaxad
and father of
Sala
(Luke 3:36).
This
is commonly called
the
“
second
” Cainan (because of the earlier one mentioned in Luke 3:37) and is remarkable in that it does not occur in the
Hebrew
,
Samaritan
Pentateuch
, Vulgate,
Syriac
, nor Arabic texts in Genesis 10:24; Genesis 11:12 and 1 Chronicles 1:18; but it is in the LXX, from which it may
have
found its way into the
gospel
of Luke, unless, as
some
suppose, it was added in the later copies of the LXX because of being found in Luke. In the
genealogy
of
Matthew
some
names
are omitted to
make
up the
three
times
“fourteen”—equaling 6 times 7; so in Luke this
name
of Cainan may have been added from some list not recorded in the
Old
Testament
, to make 77 names, 11 Times 7.
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
their smith
Call: 1-630-543-1441
“Study to show thyself approved unto God, … rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).
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