Genesis 4:20

Genesis 4:20

And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.

a. NLT: Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the first of those who raise livestock and live in tents.

b. NIV: Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock.

c. YLT: And Adah beareth Jabal, he hath been father of those inhabiting tents and purchased possessions;

d. Amplified Bible Classic: Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle and purchase possessions.

e. Septuagint: And Ada bore Jobel; he was the father of those that dwell in tents, feeding cattle.

f. Stone Edition Chumash Torah: And Adah bore Jabal; he was the first of those who dwell in tents and breed cattle.

1. “And Adah bare Jabal…”

a. Adah [5711 * `Adah] [Strong: from 5710; ornament; Adah, the name of two women:--Adah.]

b. bare [3205 * yalad] [Strong: a primitive root; to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage:--bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).]

c. Jabal [2989 * Yabal yaw-bawl' the same as 2988; Jabal, an antediluvian:--Jabal.] [Outline Of Biblical Usage: Jabal = "stream of water"; the son of Lamech by Adah and brother of Jubal; described as the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle.] [Gesenius: river, stream; the introducer to pastoral life.]

1). Henry Morris, The Genesis Record: Jabal means wanderer.

2. “…he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.”

a. he was the father [1 * ‘ab] [Strong: a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application):--chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal.]

b. of such as dwell [3427 * yashab] [Strong: a primitive root; properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry:--(make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.]

c. in tents [168 * 'ohel] [Strong: from 166; a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance):--covering, (dwelling)(place), home, tabernacle, tent.]

1). Henry Morris, The Genesis Record: Jabal invented the tent, thus enabling him to carry his home with him and develop a nomadic lifestyle. He also developed formal systems for domesticating and commercially producing other animals besides Abel’s sheep. The term “cattle” here includes camels and asses (Exodus 9:3),  as well as kine, goats, and perhaps others.] 

d. and…have cattle [4735 * miqneh] [Strong: from 7069; something bought, i.e. property, but only livestock; abstractly, acquisition:--cattle, flock, herd, possession, purchase, substance.]