Genesis 4:22
Old Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יָלַד
yâlad
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
תּוּבַל קַיִן
Tûwbal Qayin
Tubal-Kajin, an antidiluvian patriarch
לָטַשׁ
lâṭash
properly, to hammer out (an edge), i.e. to sharpen
נְחֹשֶׁת
nᵉchôsheth
copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver)
בַּרְזֶל
barzel
iron (as cutting); by extension, an iron implement
אָחוֹת
ʼâchôwth
a sister (used very widely (like brother), literally and figuratively)
תּוּבַל קַיִן
Tûwbal Qayin
Tubal-Kajin, an antidiluvian patriarch
נַעֲמָה
Naʻămâh
Naamah, the name of an antediluvian woman, of an Ammonitess, and of a place in Palestine
Key Terms in This Verse
נַעֲמָה Naʻămâh
Naamah, the name of an antediluvian woman, of an Ammonitess, and of a place in Palestine
Study H5279 →אָחוֹת ʼâchôwth
a sister (used very widely (like brother), literally and figuratively)
Study H269 →נְחֹשֶׁת nᵉchôsheth
copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver)
Study H5178 →יָלַד yâlad
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
Study H3205 →Cross References
And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me i...
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
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