Kenan

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.