1. קין (qayin)—Cain, “spear-shaft,” and קנה (qanah)—“set up, establish, gain, buy,” contain the biliteral root …

My punishment (or my iniquity) is greater than I can bear. —Literally, than can be borne, or "forgi…

My punishment is greater, etc. Nearly all commentators agree that this is the language of desperation, because Cain, confounded by the jud…

And Cain said to the Lord
In the anguish of his spirit and the distress of his mind: my punishment is gr…

Malice in the heart ends in murder by the hands. Cain killed Abel, his own brother, his own mother's son, whom he should have loved; his younger br…