Kenan | |
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קֵינָן | |
.jpg) Kenan as depicted in Jacques de Charron's Histoire universelle (1630) | |
| Spouse | Mualeleth |
| Children | Mahalalel more sons and daughters |
| Parent | Enos |
| 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) |
Kenan (also spelled Qenan, Kaynan or Cainan) (Hebrew: קֵינָן, Modern: Qēnan, Tiberian: Qēnān; Arabic: كِنَاْنْ, romanized: Kinān; Biblical Greek: Καϊνάμ, romanized: Kaïnám) 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.