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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Genesis 4:22

Tubal-cain, whom (as the learned conceive, and the agreement of the name and function makes probable) the heathens worshipped by the name of Vulcan, the god of smiths; and his sister Naamah, by the name of Venus. He first taught men how to make arms, and other instruments of iron. Naamah; so called from her beauty, which her name signifies.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 4:22. _TUBAL-CAIN_] The first _smith_ on record, who taught how to make _warlike_ instruments and _domestic_ utensils out of brass and iron. Agricultural instruments must have been in u...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - XIX. The Line of Cain 17. חניך _ch__e__nôk_, Chanok, “initiation, instruction.” 18. עירד _‛__ı̂yrād_, ‘Irad, “fleet as the wild ass, citizen.” מחוּיאל _m__e_

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TUBAL-CAIN. flowing from Cain....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Tubal-cain_ The double name is strange, and presumably means "Tubal of the family of Cain." Tubal is traditionally supposed to have given his name to the people mentioned in Genesis 10:2 (see note)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Descendants of Cain: The Genealogy of the Cainites. (J.) See the Special Note on "the Antediluvian Patriarchs," see below. The traditions preserved in this section probably belong to a different...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART EIGHTEEN THE BEGINNINGS OF HUMAN CULTURE (Genesis 4:16-24) 1. _The Patriarchal Age_ The story of Cain and Abel introduces the Patriarchal form of government and worship. Family government is th...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND ZILLAH, SHE ALSO BARE TUBALCAIN, AN INSTRUCTER OF EVERY ARTIFICER IN BRASS AND IRON: AND THE SISTER OF TUBALCAIN WAS NAAMAH._ Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron. Deli...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    4:22 of (a-14) Or 'the instructor of every worker in.' brass (b-15) Or 'bronze.' so always. Naamah. (c-24) Charming....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    TUBAL-CAIN] i.e. 'Tubal the smith': see on Genesis 4:1. AN INSTRUCTER OF EVERY ARTIFICER IN] RV 'the forger of every cutting instrument of.' BRASS] rather, 'copper' (RM), or bronze....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    We do not know whether this list of names is complete. Perhaps it leaves out some names. The word ‘son’ in the Bible sometimes means ‘grandson’ and it sometimes means ‘*descendant’. (For example, Jesu...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ צִלָּ֣ה גַם ־הִ֗וא יָֽלְדָה֙ אֶת ־תּ֣וּבַל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    SIN GROWS WORSE Cain went to live in the land of Nod with his wife. Many have wondered where he found a wife. While the text does not tell us specifically, we do know Adam named the woman Eve because...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Noema, who is supposed to have invented the art of spinning. (Calmet) --- All these worthy people were distinguished for their proficiency in the arts, while they neglected the study of religion and...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. Reader! observe, here, how little notice is taken of the posterity of C...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _AN EARLY CHAUVINIST_ ‘And Lamech took unto him two wives,’ etc. Genesis 4:19 Here we have I. A VIOLATOR OF THE DIVINE LAW OF MARRIAGE.—Monogamy was the Divine law of marriage, and in all likelihoo...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND ZILLAH, SHE ALSO BARE TUBALCAIN,.... Thought by many to be the same with Vulcan, his name and business agreeing; for the names are near in sound, Tubalcain may easily pass into Vulcan; and who, wi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain [was] Naamah. Ver. 22. _And Zillah bare Tubal-cain._] Perhaps the same that the po...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron; and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. Tubalcain was the inventor of various sharp tools for cutting metals, e...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PASSOVER AND THE OFFERING WHICH FOLLOWED IT These are the feasts of the Lord, in the narrower sense, EVEN HOLY CONVOCATIONS, WHICH YE SHALL PROCLAIM IN THEIR SEASONS. This instruction was carried...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    INSTRUCTOR: _ Heb._ wheter...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    19-24 One of Cain's wicked race is the first recorded, as having broken the law of marriage. Hitherto, one man had but one wife at a time; but Lamech took two. Wordly things, are the only things that...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    & 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-...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 4:22 Zillah H6741 bore H3205 (H8804) Tubal-Cain H8423 instructor H3913 (H8803) craftsman H2794 bronze H5178 i

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Zillah bore Tubal-Cain, he was the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.' Tubal-Cain was the one who shaped metals. Mitchell (NBD) suggests that perhaps...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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....

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Built a city_ THE FIRST CITY It was a very decided step towards civilization, when the idea of building a city was first conceived and realized. The roaming life of the homeless savage was abandone...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 4:18 LAMECH’s immediate descendants are associated with animal breeding, music, and metalwork. Whereas Abel is linked to sheep (v. Genesis 4:2),...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 4:23. Adah and Zillah.] Probably the oldest fragment of poetry extant. With a slight freedom of translation, we may perhaps thus approach the metrical cast of the original:—...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 4:17 Domiciled in Nod, whither, impelled by woman's love, his wife had accompanied him, the unhappy fugitive began to seek, if not to find, relief from the gnawing agonies of remor...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    instructer. Heb. whetter. brass. Exodus 25:3 Numbers 31:22 Deuteronomy 8:9 Deuteronomy 33:25...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    From Tubal — Cain, probably the Heathen Vulcan came. Why Naamah is particularly named, we know not: probably they did, who lived when Moses wrote....

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