Cain

Father
Adam
Mother
Eve
Wife
Daughter of one of Cain's brothers
Children
Enoch

Citations

The story of Cain. (Joseph Smith Translation of the Genesis account. More detail available.)
And Adam knew his wife again, and she bare a son, and he called his name Seth. And Adam glorified the name of God; for he said: God hath appointed me another seed, instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
And it came to pass that thus they did agree with Akish. And Akish did administer unto them the oaths which were given by them of old who also sought power, which had been handed down even from Cain, who was a murderer from the beginning.
Basic story of Cain.
Killed when his house fell on him.
22:4) I saw (the spirit of) a dead man making suit, and his voice went forth to heaven and made suit.
22:5) And I asked Raphael the angel who was with me, and I said unto him: 'This spirit which maketh suit,
22:6) whose is it, whose voice goeth forth and maketh suit to heaven ?'
22:7) And he answered me saying: 'This is the spirit which went forth from Abel, whom his brother Cain slew, and he makes his suit against him till his seed is destroyed from the face of the earth, and his seed is annihilated from amongst the seed of men.'
The story of Cain and Abel. Contains some interesting features. Cain's sacrifices are rejected (fail to be consumed by fire from heaven) because he gives the poorer pieces to the Lord. Cain then seeks an excuse to kill Abel. The actual event occurs as a dispute over Abel grazing his flocks on Cain's fields. Abel was doing this intentionally it seems because Cain had been stealing Abel's sheep for food and clothing.
Slain by his descendant Lamech, son of Methusael, when Lamech was already old; mistaken for an animal.
There is a June 7 1966 entry, apparently authored by Alvin R. Dyer which reads:

The sacredness of Far West, Missouri, is no doubt due to the understanding that the Prophet Joseph Smith conveyed to the brethren, at these early times, that Adam-ondi-Ahman, the place to which Adam and Eve fled when cast out of the Garden of Eden, is where Adam erected an altar unto God, and offered sacrifices, and that Far West was the spot where Cain killed Abel.

This, information, tends to explain why the Lord declared Far West to be a holy consecrated place; and no doubt explains why Satan claimed that place as his own, as it was here that he entered into a covenant with Cain, resulting in the death of Abel the first of mortal existence upon this earth.

Philo tells of Cain and Abel's birth, focusing on Cain's birth, and gives some detailed exegesis of themes this suggests.
Philo tells of Cain and Abel's birth, focusing on Abel's birth, and gives some detailed exegesis of themes this suggests.
Describes that Cain's name means "possession"
Cain's name is associated with the Hebrew word for "nest" (Q-N).
He gives Cain's name to mean "possession".
Of Abel's blood, it was said that Cain's hands were stained by the blood; that he could not wash it away; and that this was the mark that was set upon Cain

Notes

Name Meanings

Gotten

The most common family of meanings for the name, Cain, by far, are those associated with kana (קנה‎ q-n-h), having the meaning, "to get". Thus he is associated with getting, possession, ownership, and such. (eg. Josephus and Philo both take this perspective.) This interpretation has some very old and very modern proponents. It fits nicely with Eve's pronouncement that she had gotten a man from the Lord, and it fits a narrative interpretation of the story of Cain and Able which makes it out to be a dramatization of the old and ongoing conflict between settler and nomad. Cain even founds the first city within the context of the story.

Nest

The gnostics, reportedly associated Cain with the sun. The Zohar associates his name with "nest" (q-n). I don't think much of this interpretation at all, really. Perhaps something could be said for how a nest is a settlement, of sorts, and hence, there is some synergy with the "gotten" interpretation of the name.

Spear

In the Hebrew Bible, it appears that q-y-n are the Hebrew letters used for Cain's name.[1] This set of letters gives Cain's name meanings such as "spear" or "a smith".[2] With this name it is possible that the intended imagery of his name is phallic, and hence, it would be the "man" part of Eve's pronunciation that would be emphasized. Perhaps there is more symbolism to the spear than I am aware of.

Note References

  1. ↑ Bible Hub, Bible > Hebrew > Genesis 4:1
  2. ↑ Bible Hub, Bible > Commentaries > Genesis 4:1

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