Cain
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The eldest son of Adam and Eve, born after they were banished from the Garden of Eden. He was a tiller of the soil (Gen 4:2).
Cain and his brother Abel brought offerings to God; Cain of the first-fruits and Abel, a shepherd, of the firstlings of his flock (Gen 4:3-4). Without giving any reason, God accepted only the offering of Abel. Angered at this rejection, Cain killed his brother (Gen 4:8), for which he was subjected to a double curse: the ground would no longer yield to him its wealth (Gen 4:12), and he was condemned to be a "fugitive and a vagabond" on the earth for the rest of his life (Gen 4:12). The mark which God put on him (Gen 4:15) should not be understood as a punishment, but rather as a sign of protection.
Cain settled in the land of Nod (Gen 4:16), and married a woman who bore him a son named Enoch; Cain gave the same name to the city he built (Gen 4:17).
In the NT Cain is seen as the opponent of his righteous brother Abel, who brought a more excellent sacrifice (Heb 11:4); a symbol for an evil way of living (Jude v. 11) whose works were wicked (I John 3:12). As Abel was seen as a kind of prefiguration of Christ, some Church Fathers drew an analogy from the story of Cain and Abel, seeing them respectively as the Synagogue and the Church.
Concordance
Gen 4:1-3, 5-6,8-9, 13, 15-17,24-25. Heb 11:4. I John 3:12. Jude v.11
This biblical figure appears in the Lebor Gabála [Book of Invasions], where he is the first to see Ireland.
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Cain (kān), in the Bible, eldest son of Adam and Eve, a tiller of the soil. In jealousy he killed his brother Abel and became a fugitive.
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In the Bible, the eldest son of Adam and Eve, who murdered his brother Abel out of jealousy and was condemned to be a fugitive.
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Cain is the first mentioned son of Adam and Eve in the Bible.
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Persons with the given name Cain
- Cain Velasquez (born 1982), Mexican American mixed martial arts fighter and 2010 UFC Heavyweight Champion
Persons with the surname Cain or Caïn
- Arthur Cain (1921–1999), British evolutionary biologist and ecologist
- Chris Cain (born 1955), jazz and blues guitarist
- Dean Cain (born 1966), American actor
- Elizabeth Cain (born 1962), Australian ice skater
- Henri Caïn (1857–1937), French playwright and librettist
- Herb Cain (1913–1982), Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Herman Cain (born 1945), American businessman, talk show host and candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination
- James M. Cain (1892–1977), American crime writer
- Jonathan Cain (born 1950), musician
- Matt Cain (born 1984), baseball pitcher
- Michael Cain (born 1966), pianist composer
- Robert Henry Cain (born 1909), British soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Stephen Cain (born 1970), Canadian poet
- Susan Cain (born circa early 1968), American author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
- Syd Cain (1918–2011), British production designer
- Timothy Cain, American video game programmer
- Tyler Cain (born 1988), American basketball player
Characters
- Cain, the decoy assassin in Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity
- Cain and Abel (comics), most notably seen in The Sandman series and House of Mystery
- Cain Dingle, Emmerdale character
- Cain Marko, name of the Marvel character Juggernaut
- Ciaphas Cain, fictional character from the Warhammer 40,000 universe
- Commander Cain, of the Battlestar Pegasus in Battlestar Galactica
- David Cain (comics), a fictional character from DC Comics and father to the previous Batgirl
- Helena Cain, Admiral in Battlestar Galactica
- Valkyrie Cain, main character from the Skulduggery Pleasant novels
- Cain C. Hargreaves, a fictional character from Kaori Yuki's work: Godchild
- Cain, main antagonist from the 1990 film RoboCop 2
- Cain, alter ego of Cogliostro, a supporting character in Todd McFarlane's Spawn comic series
- Deckard Cain, a character in the Diablo video game series
Other
- Cain (band), an Italian national socialist black metal band
- Cain (novel), final novel by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago
- Cain (play), a 1821 play by Lord Byron
- Cain (software), network packet analyzing software
- Cain's Ballroom, Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN), a website documenting the Northern Irish 'Troubles'
- Slang for cocaine, a type of drug
- Cain (cigar brand), a cigar brand made by Oliva Cigar Co.
- Caín (film), a 1984 Colombian drama film directed by Gustavo Nieto Roa
- Mount Cain, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
- The Legacy Of Cain, an 1888 novel by Wilkie Collins.
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