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Genesis 4

Gen. 4:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And μin process
qets (Hebrew #7093)
an extremity; adverbially (with prepositional prefix) after
KJV usage: + after, (utmost) border, end, (in-)finite, X process.
Pronounce: kates
Origin: contracted from 7112
of time
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
it came to pass, that Cain
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)
brought
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
i of the fruit
priy (Hebrew #6529)
fruit (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bough, ((first-)) fruit((-ful)), reward.
Pronounce: per-ee'
Origin: from 6509
of the ground
'adamah (Hebrew #127)
soil (from its general redness)
KJV usage: country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
Pronounce: ad-aw-maw'
Origin: from 119
an offering
minchah (Hebrew #4503)
a donation; euphemistically, tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering (usually bloodless and voluntary)
KJV usage: gift, oblation, (meat) offering, present, sacrifice.
Pronounce: min-khaw'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to apportion, i.e. bestow
unto 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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at the end of days.
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Num. 18:12• 12All the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they give to Jehovah, have I given thee. (Num. 18:12)

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Cain,
Offering; Offering Up

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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A.M. 129.
B.C. 3875.
in process of time.
Heb. at the end ofdays. Either at the end of the year, or of the week, i.e., on the Sabbath.
1 Kings 17:7• 7And it came to pass after a while that the torrent dried up, for there had been no rain in the land. (1 Kings 17:7)
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Neh. 13:6• 6And during all that time I was not at Jerusalem; for in the two-and-thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I came to the king; and after some time I obtained leave of the king. (Neh. 13:6)
the fruit.
Lev. 2:1‑11• 1And when any one will present an oblation to Jehovah, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense thereon.
 2And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons, the priests; and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial thereof on the altar, an offering by fire to Jehovah of a sweet odour.
 3And the remainder of the oblation shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is most holy of Jehovah's offerings by fire.
 4And if thou present an offering of an oblation baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
 5And if thine offering be an oblation baken on the pan, it shall be fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
 6Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is an oblation.
 7And if thine offering be an oblation prepared in the cauldron, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
 8And thou shalt bring the oblation that is made of these things to Jehovah; and it shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar.
 9And the priest shall take from the oblation a memorial thereof, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering by fire to Jehovah of a sweet odour.
 10And the remainder of the oblation shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is most holy of Jehovah's offerings by fire.
 11No oblation which ye shall present to Jehovah shall be made with leaven; for no leaven and no honey shall ye burn in any fire-offering to Jehovah. (Lev. 2:1‑11)
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Num. 18:12• 12All the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they give to Jehovah, have I given thee. (Num. 18:12)
• The penalty of sin is death. Cain was a sinner, and, as such, death stood between him and Jehovah. But, in his offering, there was no recognition whatever of this fact. There was no presentation of a sacrificed life, to meet the claims of divine holiness, or to answer to his own true condition as a sinner. He treated Jehovah as though He were, altogether, such an one as himself, who could accept the sin-stained fruit of a cursed earth. (“Genesis 4-5” by C.H. Mackintosh)
• Man would fain make God a receiver instead of a giver. (“Genesis 4-5” by C.H. Mackintosh)
• Cain, laboring honestly outwardly where God had set him to do so, externally a worshipper of the true God, has not the conscience of sin; he brings as an offering the fruits which are signs of the curse, proof of the complete blinding of the heart, and hardening of the conscience of a sinful race driven out from God (“Genesis 4” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And in process of timee it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offeringf to Jehovah.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "at the end of days."
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Lit. "gift," minchah. so vers. 4,5; elsewhere translated "oblation." See Lev. 2.1.