Every Name in Tanakh

קֵינָן Cainan

Every verse in which this name stands — 6 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the occurrences our own corpus tags as this name, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.

PersonGematria 210×6 named in TanakhFirst appearance:

An antediluvian. The name stands six times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 5:9 and last at 1 Chronicles 1:2.

Genesis 5:9בראשית ה:ט

וַֽיְחִי אֱנוֹשׁ תִּשְׁעִים שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד אֶת־קֵינָֽן

And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Kenan.

Genesis 5:10בראשית ה:י

וַֽיְחִי אֱנוֹשׁ אַֽחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ אֶת־קֵינָן חֲמֵשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה וּשְׁמֹנֶה מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בָּנִים וּבָנֽוֹת

And Enosh lived after he begot Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:12בראשית ה:יב

וַֽיְחִי קֵינָן שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד אֶת־מַֽהֲלַלְאֵֽל

And Kenan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalalel.

Genesis 5:13בראשית ה:יג

וַיְחִי קֵינָן אַחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ אֶת־מַֽהֲלַלְאֵל אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה וּשְׁמֹנֶה מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בָּנִים וּבָנֽוֹת

And Kenan lived after he begot Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:14בראשית ה:יד

וַיִּֽהְיוּ כָּל־יְמֵי קֵינָן עֶשֶׂר שָׁנִים וּתְשַׁע מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיָּמֹֽת

And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.

Quick answers

What is the gematria of Cainan?

Cainan — קינן in Hebrew — has a gematria of 210 in the standard method.

How many times is Cainan named in the Tanakh?

6 times, first at Genesis 5:9.

A spelling is not a name. The written word קינן stands 6 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell another name or an ordinary word, and a name written with a particle attached is a word that search never returns. It is here, as itself.

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