Genesis Chapter 4 verse 26 Holy Bible
And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah.
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And Seth had a son, and he gave him the name of Enosh: at this time men first made use of the name of the Lord in worship.
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And to Seth, to him also was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then people began to call on the name of Jehovah.
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And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
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And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
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There was also born a son to Seth, and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on Yahweh's name.
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And to Seth, to him also a son hath been born, and he calleth his name Enos; then a beginning was made of preaching in the name of Jehovah.
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Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(26) He called his name Enos.--Heb., Enosh, that is, man. We thus find language growing. Up to this time there had been two names for man: Adam, which also in Assyrian--another Semitic dialect--has the same meaning, as Sir H. Rawlinson has shown: and Ish, a being. (See on Genesis 2:23.) We have now Enosh, which, according to Frst and others, signifies mortal; but of this there is no proof. Most probably it is the generic word for man. and is used as such in the Aramaic dialects. Thus in Syriac and Chaldee our Lord is styled bar-enosh, the son of man: not the son of a mortal, but the son of man absolutely.Then began men (Heb., then it was begun) to call upon the name of the Lord (Jehovah).--That is, the notion of Divinity began now to be attached to this name, and even in their worship men called upon God as Jehovah. Eve, as we have seen, attached no such idea to it; and when, in Genesis 4:3, we read that Cain and Abel brought an offering to Jehovah, these are the words of the narrator, who in the story of the fall had expressly styled the Deity Jehovah-Elohim, that is, Jehovah-God, or more exactly, "the coming God," in order to show that Elohim and Jehovah are one. Two hundred and thirty-five years had elapsed between the birth of Cain and that of Enos, and men had learned a truer appreciation of the promise given to their primal mother, in Genesis 3:15, than she herself had when she supposed that her first child was to win back for her the Paradise. Probably they had no exact doctrinal views about His person and nature; it was the office of prophecy "by divers portions" to give these (Hebrews 1:1). But they had been taught that "He who should be" was Divine, and to be worshipped. It is the hopeless error of commentators to suppose that Eve, and Enos, and others, knew all that is now known, and all that the inspired narrator knew. They thus do violence to the plainest language of Holy Scripture, and involve its interpretation in utter confusion. Read without these preconceived notions, the sense is plain: that the name Jehovah had now become a title of the Deity, whereas previously no such sacredness had been attached to it. It was long afterwards, in the days of Moses, that it became the personal name of the covenant God of the Jews.Parallel Commentaries ...HebrewAnd to Sethוּלְשֵׁ֤ת (ū·lə·šêṯ)Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singularStrong's 8352: Seth -- a son of Adamalsoגַּם־ (gam-)ConjunctionStrong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, anda sonבֵּ֔ן (bên)Noun - masculine singularStrong's 1121: A sonwas born,יֻלַּד־ (yul·laḏ-)Verb - QalPass - Perfect - third person masculine singularStrong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineageand he calledוַיִּקְרָ֥א (way·yiq·rā)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singularStrong's 7121: To call, proclaim, readhimשְׁמ֖וֹ (šə·mōw)Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singularStrong's 8034: A nameEnosh.אֱנ֑וֹשׁ (’ĕ·nō·wōš)Noun - proper - masculine singularStrong's 583: Enosh -- 'man', a son of SethAt that timeאָ֣ז (’āz)AdverbStrong's 227: At that time, place, therefore[men] beganהוּחַ֔ל (hū·ḥal)Verb - Hofal - Perfect - third person masculine singularStrong's 2490: To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to playto call uponלִקְרֹ֖א (liq·rō)Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive constructStrong's 7121: To call, proclaim, readthe nameבְּשֵׁ֥ם (bə·šêm)Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular constructStrong's 8034: A nameof the LORD.יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)Noun - proper - masculine singularStrong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of IsraelJump to PreviousBeginning Born Enos Enosh First Preaching Seth Time Use Worship
