| Cainan Fausset's Bible Dictionary
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| ("possessor"
or "weapon-maker"), as Tubal-cain comes from the Arabic "to forge" (Gen
4:22). Son of Enos; aged 70 when he begat Mahalaleel; he lived
840 years more, and died at 910 (Gen
5:9-14;
1Ch 1:2). In
Luk 3:36-37, second Cainan is
introduced in the genealogy of Shem after the flood, a son of Cainan. A
transcriber seems to have inserted it from the margin, where it was
noted down from the Septuagint version of
Gen 10:24; Gen 11:12;
1Ch 1:18, but not in verse 24. For
no Hebrew manuscript has it, nor the Samaritan Pentateuch, Chaldee,
Syriac, and Vulgate versions from the Hebrew. Nor had even the
Septuagint originally, according to Berosus, Polyhistor, Josephus,
Philo, Theophilus of Antioch, Origen, Eusebius, Jerome. Beza's
manuscript D, of Luke, omits it. Ephrem Syrus says the Chaldees in the
time of Terah and Abraham worshipped a graven god, Cainan. The rabbis
represented him as the introducer of idol worship and astrology.
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| Taken from: Fausset's Bible Dictionary by Andrew Robert Fausset (1821-1910) | |