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Cainan @ possession; smith.

(1.) The fourth antediluvian patriarch, the eldest son of Enos. He was 70 years old at the birth of his eldest son Mahalaleel, after which he lived 840 years kjv@Genesis:5:9-14), and was 910 years old when he died. He is also called Kenan ( kjv@1Chronicles:1:2).

(2.) The son of Arphaxad kjv@Luke:3:36). He is nowhere named in the Old Testament. He is usually called the "second Cainan."