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For the actor, see Kenan Thompson
Kenan Thompson

Kenan Thompson is an American actor and comedian who is currently a cast member of Saturday Night Live. He is also known for his titular role in Fat Albert , his role as a former cast member of All That, and for his starring role in the sitcom Kenan & Kel....
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For the Ethics Institute, see Kenan Institute for Ethics
Kenan Institute for Ethics

The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University is an interdisciplinary "think and do" tank committed to understanding and addressing real-world ethical challenges facing individuals, organizations and societies worldwide....
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Kenan, Qenan, Kaïvav (as found in Luke 3:36, 37), , or Cainan was a Biblical

Bible

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patriarch first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible

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book of Genesis

Genesis

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as living before the Great Flood.

According to Genesis 5:9-14, he was the grandson of Seth

Seth

Seth , in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, is the third listed son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel and is the only other son mentioned by name....
and son of Enos

Enos (biblical figure)

Enos or Enosh is a biblical name in the genealogies of Adam , and consequently referred to within the genealogies of Books of Chronicles, and of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke....
. Born when Enos was ninety years old, Cainan had his only named son, Mahalalel

Mahalalel

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Bible

Hebrew Bible

The term Hebrew Bible is a generic reference to those books of the Bible originally written mostly in Biblical Hebrew with some Biblical Aramaic....
book of Genesis

Genesis

Seth

Seth , in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, is the third listed son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel and is the only other son mentioned by name....
and son of Enos

Enos (biblical figure)

Mahalalel

Mahalalel or Mahalaleel was a patriarch named in the Hebrew Bible. He was the son of Cainan, son of Enos , son of Seth, son of Adam in the Old Testament of the Bible....
, when he was seventy. Other sons and daughters were born to Kenan before he died at 910 years of age.

This name seems to derive from words denoting a permanent dwelling place or stronghold.

Postdiluvian Cainan

Two men named Cainan are mentioned in the geneaology

Family history

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of Jesus

Jesus

Jesus of Nazareth , also known as Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity and is revered by most Christian churches as the Son of God and the Incarnation ....
given in Luke

Gospel of Luke

The Gospel of Luke is a Synoptic Gospels, and is the third and longest of the four Biblical canonical Gospels of the New Testament. The text narrates the life of Jesus of Nazareth....
3:37 in the New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
. One of these is the son of Enos above; a second Cainan is listed as the son of Arpachshad

Arpachshad

Arpachshad or Arphaxad or Arphacsad was one of the five sons of Shem, the son of Noah . His brothers were Elam, Asshur, Lud son of Shem and Aram; he is an ancestor of Abraham....
and father of Salah, who lived in the time between Noah

Noah

Noah was, according to the Bible, the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs ; and a prophet according to the Qur'an. The biblical story of Noah is contained in the book of Book of Genesis, chapters 5-9, while the Qur'an has a whole sura named after and devoted to his story with other references elsewhere....
and Abraham

Abraham

Abraham is a man featured in the Book of Genesis and an important figure in several monotheistic religions. Judaism, Christianity and Islam traditions regard him as the founding Patriarchs of the Israelites, Ishmaelites and Edomite peoples....
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This Cainan also appears in the Septuagint

Septuagint

The Septuagint , or simply "LXX", is the Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, translated in stages between the 3rd century BC and 1st century BC in Alexandria....
(Greek) Old Testament, but is omitted by the Hebrew Masoretic text

Masoretic Text

The Masoretic Text is the Hebrew language text of the Jewish Bible . It defines not just the Development of the Jewish Bible canon, but also the precise letter-text of the biblical books in Judaism, as well as their niqqud and cantillation for both public reading and private study....
. For this reason, this second Cainan is considered to be a scribal error by some scholars. Nevertheless, a substantial number of traditions about this other Cainan exist in the history of literature.