BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5897
i.rad — Irad
A man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.4.18; son of: Enoch (H2585); father of: Mehujael (H4232) § Irad = "fleet" son of Enoch, grandson of Cain, and father of Mehujael
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2585
cha.nokh — Enoch
A man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.4.17; son of: Cain (H7014B); father of: Irad (H5897) § Enoch = "dedicated" 1) eldest son of Cain 2) son of Jared and father of Methuselah whom God took home to heaven without dying 3) the city which Cain built and named after his son Enoch (after himself) Hanoch = "dedicated" 4) a son of Midian, the third child 5) the eldest son of Reuben
15 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4232
me.chu.ya.el — Mehujael
A man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.4.18; son of: Irad (H5897); father of: Methushael (H4967) § Mehujael = "smitten by God" son of Irad and great grandson of Cain
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →Runner; wild ass, one of the antediluvian patriarchs, the father of Mehujael (Gen. 4:18), and grandson of Cain.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
