Every Name in Tanakh

תּוּבַל קַיִן Tubal-cain

Every verse in which this name stands — 2 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 598×2 named in TanakhFirst appearance:

An antidiluvian patriarch. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, all of them in Genesis 4:22.

Genesis 4:22בראשית ד:כב

וְצִלָּה גַם־הִוא יָֽלְדָה אֶת־תּוּבַל קַיִן לֹטֵשׁ כָּל־חֹרֵשׁ נְחֹשֶׁת וּבַרְזֶל וַֽאֲחוֹת תּֽוּבַל־קַיִן נַֽעֲמָֽה

And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

Genesis 4:22בראשית ד:כב

וְצִלָּה גַם־הִוא יָֽלְדָה אֶת־תּוּבַל קַיִן לֹטֵשׁ כָּל־חֹרֵשׁ נְחֹשֶׁת וּבַרְזֶל וַֽאֲחוֹת תּֽוּבַל־קַיִן נַֽעֲמָֽה

And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

Quick answers

What is the gematria of Tubal-cain?

Tubal-cain — תובל קין in Hebrew — has a gematria of 598 in the standard method.

How many times is Tubal-cain named in the Tanakh?

2 times, first at Genesis 4:22.

A spelling is not a name. The written word תובל קין stands 2 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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