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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 father of all such as handle harp and pipe. (Gen. 4:21)
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1 Chron. 2:50‑52• 50These are the sons of Caleb. The sons 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, Hazi-Hammenuhoth. (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 were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, and father of Bethlehem.
 5—And Ashhur 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 ye desire to practice the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him: whenever he speaketh the lie, he speaketh out of his own things, because 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 as seal of the righteousness of the faith that [he had] in uncircumcision, in order to his being father of all that believe in a state of uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also,
 12and father of circumcision not only to those circumcised but also to those that walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham while in uncircumcision. (Rom. 4:11‑12)
father.The inventor or teacher, 1 Sa 10:12.dwell.
Gen. 4:2• 2And again she bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a feeder of sheep, and Cain was a tiller of the ground. (Gen. 4:2)
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Gen. 25:27• 27And the boys grew; and Esau became a man skillful in hunting, a man of the field, and Jacob an upright 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 not his own, dwelling as he did in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs 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)
• Why think of sin or righteousness, of death and judgment, of Christ and His coming? Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die. A “garden” of Epicurism soon opened when Paradise was closed; and votaries were not wanting long before Epicurus rose among the Greeks or Sadducees among the Jews. (“Genesis 4:18-22” by W. Kelly)
• Some, of whom Jabal is chief, pleased themselves in the rough and adventurous life of nomad herdmen. (“Genesis 4:18-22” by W. Kelly)
• scripture is express that the settled, ordered, and combined life of a city, as well as the working of metals, and the invention of musical instruments within two main divisions, began early in the life of Adam. The mythical treatment of the question is entirely due to skeptical men of science who prefer hypothesis to well ascertained fact, and seem pleased in opposing revelation. (“Genesis 4:18-22” by W. Kelly)

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.

W. Kelly Translation

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And Adah bare Jabal: he was father of such as dwell in tents and [have] cattle.