Bible Names

Tubal-cain: meaning of the name

Tubal-cain means “worldly possession; possessed of confusion.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Tubal-cain in Hebrew and Greek

תּוּבַל קַיִן H8423

Tûwbal Qayin (too-bal' kah'-yin) — Tubal-Kajin, an antidiluvian patriarch

apparently from H2986 (יָבַל) (compare H2981 (יְבוּל)) and H7014 (קַיִן); offspring of Cain;

Who named Tubal-cain in the Bible