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Genesis 4

Gen. 4:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Adah
`Adah (Hebrew #5711)
ornament; Adah, the name of two women
KJV usage: Adah.
Pronounce: aw-daw'
Origin: from 5710
bare
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
Jabal
Yabal (Hebrew #2989)
Jabal, an antediluvian
KJV usage: Jabal.
Pronounce: yaw-bawl'
Origin: the same as 2988
: he was the father
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
of such as dwell
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
in tents
'ohel (Hebrew #168)
a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance)
KJV usage: covering, (dwelling)(place), home, tabernacle, tent.
Pronounce: o'-hel
Origin: from 166
, and of such as have cattle
miqneh (Hebrew #4735)
something bought, i.e. property, but only livestock; abstractly, acquisition
KJV usage: cattle, flock, herd, possession, purchase, substance.
Pronounce: mik-neh'
Origin: from 7069
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Adah,
Cattle,
Father,
Jabal,
Tent

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Gen. 4:21• 21And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. (Gen. 4:21)
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1 Chron. 2:50‑52• 50These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim,
 51Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader.
 52And Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites. (1 Chron. 2:50‑52)
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1 Chron. 4:4‑5• 4And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem.
 5And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. (1 Chron. 4:4‑5)
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John 8:44• 44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44)
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Rom. 4:11‑12• 11And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
 12And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. (Rom. 4:11‑12)
father.The inventor or teacher, 1 Sa 10:12.dwell.
Gen. 4:2• 2And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. (Gen. 4:2)
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Gen. 25:27• 27And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. (Gen. 25:27)
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Jer. 35:9‑10• 9Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
 10But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us. (Jer. 35:9‑10)
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Heb. 11:9• 9By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: (Heb. 11:9)
• The resources of his genius, too, are put forth to render this world a hot-house, in which are produced, in their rarest form, all the fruits for which nature so eagerly longs. (“Genesis 4-5” by C.H. Mackintosh)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of those who dwell in tents, and breed cattle.