CAIN, Genesis 4:1 קין QahYiN
(not directly a word, but the verse itself says that Eve gave birth to and raised Cain as if she, like the Creator, could קנה QaNaH (possess, acquire,
create)
a person. Parents and
mothers have a profound link to their
children, but we must never
forget that human souls have a higher parent.
Cain’s COINAGE
or name rhymes
with GAIN.
קין
QahYiN / Cain was a man of possession and acquisition. קנאה
QiN’AH (means possessiveness, envy – Numbers 5:4). קנין
QiNYaN
is an acquisition (Leviticus 22:11).
Loss
evokes קינה QeeYNaH (lamenting –
see “KEENING.”)
Unlike his pastoral brother, קין
QahYiN / Cain was a man of the earth. Sufficiency was not the issue. His family
farmland to split with his brother was THE WHOLE PLANET.
It was not enough.
Pushing Cain over the edge to
murderous rage was the notion that his brother was divinely Chosen, instead of
him. “Oh yeah?”, screams the hateful Replacement Theologist from Paul to
Mohammad to Hitler, “let’s see how Chosen you are after I turn you into dust.”
Again, the eternal soul and the Eternal is
out of sight … out of mind. קין QahYiN / Cain the man of earth lives to feather his estate,
his קן
QaiN (nest). He is made homeless.
ABeL, Genesis 4:2 הבל He(V)eL /Abel
means a breath, Psalms 144:4; and vanity, Ecclesiastes 1:2.
There’s the breathy sigh of “the good die
young,” and the realization that for every person willing to give to and to
thank the Creator, there is a jealous, Cain-like Replacement Theology nutjob
anxious to murder him.
A breathe on a winter’s window pane has a glorious
moment, and fades fast.
The E-Word entry with הבל He(V)eL is “EXHALE,” to emit vapor, as Latin hālāre
means “to breathe.” (A mid-word ב Bhet/V often becomes a vowel like U or drops out… like LAUNDRY from לבן LA(V)aN, white. In Spanish clothes are whitened or washed in a lavandaria.)
Parsing
the name הבל He(V)eL or HeBHeL/ Abel, we have 1) הב HahBH
means “give,” the core-root or “heart” of
אהבה AHa(V)aH,
love + the Aleph א - Lamed
ל of
the deity name, translatable as “Power.” So, the name הבל He(V)eL/Abel evokes both “Give-to-the Lord” and “exhalation”
as if we should say הלל HaLeL (praise) for every breath.