Kenan

Also known as Cainan, Qenan, Kainan, Kaynan, Caynam

Kenan (also spelled Qenan, Kaynan, Caynam or Cainan) (; ; ) is an Antediluvian patriarch first mentioned in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.

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Person.name: Kenan
Person.image: Kenan, biblical figure, Son of Enos (4th generation of the Genesis patriarchs).jpg
Person.caption: Kenan as depicted in Jacques de Charron's Histoire universelle (1630)
Person.native_name: קֵינָן
Person.native_name_lang: he
Person.spouse: Mualeleth
Person.parents: Enos
Person.children: Mahalalelmore sons and daughters
Person.relatives: Seth (grandfather)Adam and Eve (great-grandparents)Cain (granduncle)Abel (granduncle)Irad (second cousin)Jared (grandson)Enoch (great-grandson)Methuselah (great-great-grandson)Lamech (great-great-great-grandson)Noah (great-great-great-great-grandson)

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Image: Forefather Cainan - iconography by the author Dementiev Zh. From the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve.jpg

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Commons category: Kenan (Biblical figure)
date of birth: 3679-00-00
date of death: 2769-00-00
name in native language: קֵינָן‬

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Kenan (also spelled Qenan, Kaynan, Caynam or Cainan) (; ; ) is an Antediluvian patriarch first mentioned in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.

The Sefer ha-Yashar describes Cainan, the possessor of great astrological wisdom, which had been inscribed on tables of stone, as the son of Seth; i.e., the antediluvian Kenan grandson of Seth according to the Bible. He is revered within Islamic tradition as well.