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Verse Genesis 4:2. _AND SHE AGAIN BARE HIS BROTHER ABEL._] Literally,
_She_ _added to bear_ (ותסף ללדת vattoseph laledeth) _his
brother_. From the very face of this account it appears evident that
Ca...
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- Section IV - The Family of Adam
- Cain and Abel
1. קין _qayı̂n_, Qain (Cain), “spear-shaft,” and קנה
_qānah_, “set up, establish, gain, buy,” contain the biliteral
root קן _qan_, “set up, erect, g...
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CHAPTER 4
After the Fall and the Two Seeds
_ 1. Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:1)_
2. Their offerings (Genesis 4:3)
3. The divine remonstrance (Genesis 4:6)
4. Abel slain by his brother ...
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The Story of Cain and Abel. This belongs to the J cycle of stories,
but apparently not to the same stratum as Genesis 4:3, for it is
assumed that the earth has a population from which Cain fears
venge...
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ABEL. = transitoriness....
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_Abel_ Heb. _Hebel_= "breath," or "vapour," a name suggestive of
fleeting life, cf. Job 7:16. No better explanation of the name is
given. Assyriologists have suggested that the name reproduces the
Ass...
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ABEL— This word signifies _vanity._ Calmet says, that Eve having
observed in the conduct of Cain that he was not the deliverer which
she imagined, gave to her second son a name which might denote the...
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PART SEVENTEEN
THE BEGINNING OF TRUE RELIGION
(Genesis 4:1-15)
1. _Preliminary Definitions_
It is doubtful that there is a more ambiguous word in our language
today than the word religion. It has li...
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_AND SHE AGAIN BARE HIS BROTHER ABEL. AND ABEL WAS A KEEPER OF SHEEP,
BUT CAIN WAS A TILLER OF THE GROUND._
And she again bare his brother Abel - Hebrew, 'she added to bear.'
"Abel," or, according to...
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4:2 Abel. (b-7) Heb. _ Hebel_ , a breath (Job 7:16 ); or 'vanity'
(Psalms 144:4 ). shepherd, (c-12) Lit. 'herdsman of small cattle.'
husbandman. (d-17) Lit. 'worked the ground.'...
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ABEL] perhaps from the Assyrian _ahlu,_ 'a son.' Here it may be
connected with Heb. _hebel_, 'a breath,' a fitting name for one whose
life was so brief: see on Genesis 4:1....
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CAIN AND ABEL. THE DESCENDANTS OF CAIN
The narrative, which forms part of the Primitive document,
impressively shows how sin, having once appeared, became hereditary in
the human race, and speedily de...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 4
CAIN KILLS ABEL
V1 Adam had sex with his wife Eve and she became *pregnant. Her son
Cain was born. She said, ‘I have gained a man by the *Lord’...
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ABEL. — Of this name Dr. Oppert imagined that it was the Assyrian
_Abil,_ a son. Really it is _Hebel;_ and there is no reason why we
should prefer an Assyrian to a Hebrew etymology. An Accadian
deriva...
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וַ תֹּ֣סֶף לָ לֶ֔דֶת אֶת ־אָחִ֖יו אֶת
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CAIN AND ABEL
Genesis 4:1
IT is not the purpose of this narrator to write the history of the
world. It is not his purpose to write even the history of mankind. His
object is to write the history of r...
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OFFERINGS BY CAIN AND ABEL
Genesis 3:22; Genesis 4:1
It was good that man should be driven from Eden. Soft comfort
enervates. The natives of the South Sea Islands are moral pulp. Man
goes forth from...
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The degeneration of the first man and woman was transmitted, the
firstborn being manifestly an inheritor of the fallen nature of his
parents. His mother named him Cain, intimating a hope that the seed...
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Even though Adam and Eve had sinned and been driven out of the garden,
there were moments of joy. Eve conceived and bore Cain. She said, "I
have gotten a man from the Lord" (Genesis 4:1). Her statemen...
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And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep,
but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
And if, by the name of Abel, which signifies vanity, Our first mother
meant, that his birth w...
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There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention
may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with
facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
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2._And she again bare his brother Abel _(226) It is well known whence
the name of Cain is deduced, and for what reason it was given to him.
For his mother said, קניתי (_kaniti_,) I have gotten a man;...
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But grace could work. The grace of a God above the evil of man, and
Abel approaches Him by faith. Hereon follows the separation of the
families of God and of the enemy, of the world and of faith. Abel...
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AND SHE AGAIN BARE HIS BROTHER ABEL,.... Or "added to bare" y, not
directly or immediately, but perhaps the following year; though some
have thought, because no mention is made of her conceiving again...
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Adam and Eve had many _sons and daughters, Genesis 5:4_: but Cain and
Abel seem to have been the two eldest. Cain signifies _possession;_
for Eve, when she bare him, said, with joy, and thankfulness,...
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1 The birth, trade, and religion of Cain and Abel.
8 The murder of Abel.
9 The curse of Cain.
17 Enoch the first citie.
19 Lamech and his two wiues.
25 The birth of Seth,
26 and Enos.
1 AND Ada...
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And she again bare his brother Abel. This was her second child, her
second son, whose name Abel (vanity) indicates that she was feeling
the vanity of this earthly life and hoped all the more eagerly f...
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The Offerings of Cain and Abel...
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SECOND SECTION
_Cain and Abel. The Cainites. The ungodly Worldliness of the First
Civilization._
GENESIS 4:1-26
1And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and bare Cain [the
gotten, or possessi...
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CAIN AND ABEL
Adam and Eve, having acquired a sinful nature, could only communicate
the same nature to their children. Their firstborn was named Cain,
which means "smith" or "fabricator," one who plan...
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ABEL:
_ Heb._ Hebel
KEEPER:
_ Heb._ a feeder...
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1-7 When Cain was born, Eve said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
Perhaps she thought that this was the promised seed. If so, she was
wofully disappointed. Abel signifies vanity: when she thought...
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ABEL signifies _vanity, _ a vain, mortal, miserable man, whereas she
thought Cain to be more than an ordinary man; or this name might
prophetically design his miserable life, and untimely and unnatura...
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& Genesis 5:1-32
As each section of the Book of Genesis opens before us, we are
furnished with fresh evidence of the fact that we are travelling over,
what a recent writer has well termed, "the seed-...
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‘And again she bore his brother Abel (Hebel). And Abel was a keeper
of sheep while Cain was a worker of the ground.'
Abel was a keeper of ‘sheep' (the word strictly means what we might
call ‘small cat...
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THE STORY OF CAIN AND ABEL (GENESIS 4:1 TO GENESIS 5:1 A).
Genesis 4:1. The Sin of Cain TABLET III
It is quite clear that this section once existed separately from
Genesis 2-3. The immediate and last...
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ABEL
Abel ("exhalation," or, "that which ascends") is a type of the
spiritual man. His sacrifice, in which atoning blood was shed (Hebrews
9:22) was therefore at once his confession of sin and the ex...
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Genesis 4
I.
From the story of Cain we gather the following thoughts:
I. Eve's disappointment at the birth of Cain should be a warning to
all mothers. Over-estimate of children may be traced somet...
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CONTENTS: First sons of Adam, Cain and Abel. Murder of Abel. First
civilization. Birth of Seth.
CHARACTERS: Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Seth.
CONCLUSION: Attainment can never take the place of Atonement....
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Genesis 4:1. _I have gotten._ קניתי _kaniti,_ from the root
_kana,_ he possessed. The LXX have betrayed their ignorance of the
Eternal Word, or Wisdom, by frequently rendering this word _created._
God...
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_Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground_
THE STORY OF CAIN AND ABEL
I. RELIGION ACTUATED MEN IN THE VERY EARLIEST TIMES.
II. THE MERE NATURAL RELIGION IS ESSENTIALLY DEFECT...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 4:2 The fact that God HAD REGARD FOR ABEL
AND HIS OFFERING, but not for Cain, does not mean that shepherds are
better than farmers or that animal offerings are better than plan...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 4:1. Gotten a man from the Lord.] Or, perhaps, “Gotten a
man, even Jehovah.” The rendering of the A. V. is no doubt the one
more generally followed. Leeser and Murphy have, “f...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 4:1
Exiled from Eden, o'er, canopied by grace, animated by hope, assured
of the Divine forgiveness, and filled with a sweet peace, the first
pair enter on their life experience of...
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Lets turn to Genesis Chapter four.
Adam and Eve have been expelled from the Garden of Eden because of
their disobedience to God.
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and
said...
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Abel. Heb. Hebel. And Abel. Genesis 30:29 Genesis 37:13 Genesis 46:32
Genesis 47:3...
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SEEING CHRIST IN CAIN AND ABEL
Genesis 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. Cain and Abel came by natural generation. The only human beings God
ever created were Adam and Eve. They were created with the power...
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CAIN AND ABEL
Genesis 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
It falls to our lot to connect the links between our last study and
today's.
1. WE HAVE ADAM NAMING HIS WIFE, "EVE." Here is the Scripture: "And
Adam ca...
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Abel signifies vanity. The name given to this son is put upon the
whole race, Psalms 39:5. Every man is at his best estate vanity; Abel,
vanity. He chose that employment which did most befriend contem...