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Genesis 4

Gen. 4:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Adam
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
knew
'eth (Hebrew #853)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
KJV usage: (as such unrepresented in English).
Pronounce: ayth
Origin: apparent contracted from 226 in the demonstrative sense of entity
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
Eve
Chavvah (Hebrew #2332)
life-giver; Chavvah (or Eve), the first woman
KJV usage: Eve.
Pronounce: khav-vaw'
Origin: causatively from 2331
his wife
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
; and she conceived
harah (Hebrew #2029)
to be (or become) pregnant, conceive (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: been, be with child, conceive, progenitor.
Pronounce: haw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
, and bare
'eth (Hebrew #853)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
KJV usage: (as such unrepresented in English).
Pronounce: ayth
Origin: apparent contracted from 226 in the demonstrative sense of entity
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
θCain
Qayin (Hebrew #7014)
Kajin, the name of the first child, also of a place in Palestine, and of an Oriental tribe
KJV usage: Cain, Kenite(-s).
Pronounce: kah'-yin
Origin: the same as 7013 (with a play upon the affinity to 7069)
, and said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, I have gotten
qanah (Hebrew #7069)
to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own
KJV usage: attain, buy(-er), teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy, possess(-or), purchase, recover, redeem, X surely, X verily.
Pronounce: kaw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
a man
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
from
'eth (Hebrew #854)
properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc.
KJV usage: against, among, before, by, for, from, in(-to), (out) of, with. Often with another prepositional prefix.
Pronounce: ayth
Origin: probably from 579
the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
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i.e. gotten, or, acquired.

More on:

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Adam,
Cain,
Eve,
Man,
Wife

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-7:  The birth, occupation, and offering of Cain and Abel.
8-10:  Cain murders his brother Abel.
11-16:  The curse of Cain.
17:  Has a son called Enoch, and builds a city, which he calls after his name.
18-24:  His descendants, with Lamech and his two wives.
25:  The birth of Seth,
26:  and Enos.
knew.
Num. 31:17• 17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. (Num. 31:17)
Cain.That is, gotten or acquired.I have.
Gen. 4:25• 25And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. (Gen. 4:25)
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Gen. 3:15• 15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. (Gen. 3:15)
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Gen. 5:29• 29And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed. (Gen. 5:29)
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1 John 3:12• 12Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. (1 John 3:12)
• “I have gotten a man from Jehovah” was faith in promise, but expectation of the accomplishment of promise in nature. And Cain had to go out from the presence of Jehovah. (“Genesis 3” by J.N. Darby)
• The “first man” Adam was now a father, but only when fallen; as the “Second man” became head of the new family of God, when attested as righteous in resurrection, obeying God and having borne our sins in His own body on the tree (1 Cor. 15:45, 46). Further, Eve takes the initiative and expresses her thought religiously, but according to nature, which never rises to God's mind as to either man's sin or God's grace. Hence it is wholly unavailing to bring man out of evil to God (“Genesis 4:1-4” by W. Kelly)
• It is no wonder that Eve could not forecast that the coming Vanquisher was to be the woman's Seed, still more true and exclusive and glorious than her firstborn, because He, He alone, was to be Immanuel, El Gibbor, as the prophet testified, the true God and Eternal Life, as says the apostle. Yet her language shows that she did hope for a man of worth from, or with the help of, Jehovah, though in the way of nature fallen and so coming to naught. (“Genesis 4:1-4” by W. Kelly)
• It is remarkable that Eve, who had been misled by the serpent to forget the special relationship of Jehovah Elohim, said on the birth of Cain, I have gotten a man from, or with the help of Jehovah. It was like Sarah in Hagar's case looking for the seed of promise through nature. On the other hand, and in the same chap. 4:25, she said on the birth of Seth, Elohim hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel: the more to he observed, because in the next verse we are told that then it was men began to call upon the name of Jehovah (“Genesis 5:3-5” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Caina, and said, I have acquired a man with Jehovah.

JND Translation Notes

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Acquisition.

W. Kelly Translation

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And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have acquired a man froma Jehovah.

WK Translation Notes

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(with)