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Definition of Kainites
1. kainite [n] - See also: kainite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kainites
Literary usage of Kainites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reformers Before the Reformation: Principally in Germany and the Netherlands by Carl Ullmann, Robert Menzies (1855)
"... and kainites, and in general all the Gnostics who were decidedly opposed to
Judaism. But, as is well known, a thread of Gnosticism also runs out into ..."
2. Traditions & Beliefs of Ancient Israel by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1907)
"He also thinks that the former story has no connexion with the genealogy of the
kainites. This may be granted, though the Kain of ..."
3. The Ghebers of Hebron: An Introduction to the Gheborim in the Lands of the by Samuel Fales Dunlap (1894)
"Haer. xxix. 1, 4. They are Jews and nothing else.—ibid. 7; Matthew, x. 5.
The kainites were also called ..."
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