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Jubal

Hebrew: יוּבָ֑ל —transliteration: Yubal —pronunciation: yoo-BAHL

Meaning: The original meaning of this pre-Flood name is unknown, but some guess “the ram.” The name has come to mean musician, music or jubilee.

Jubal is Lamech’s 2nd son by Adah, and a descendant of Adam’s 1st son Cain the murderer. He is mentioned only in Genesis 4:21.

And Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and have livestock. And his brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre [kinnor] and pipe ['ugab]. —Genesis 4:20-21

He lived in the world before the global Flood, and was the inventor or master of 2 classes of musical instruments, and is called the father of all who play them.

• The kinnor, a stringed instrument of the lyre type

  See: kinnor

• wind instruments called in Hebrew וְעוּגָֽב׃ (transliterated: uggab)

  See: Ugab

  The King James Bible translated uggab as “the organ,” having in mind such instruments as a Pan’s pipe or mouth organ.

Lineage: Adam and Eve → Cain → Enoch → Irad → Mehujael → Methushael → Lamech → Jubal

Relatives

• Father: Lamech
• Mother: Adah
• Step-Mother: Zillah
• Full-Brother: Jabal
• Half-Brother: Tubal-cain
• Half-Sister: Naamah. Other sisters are not named or numbered in the Bible.

More information

• What is a kinnor (lyre) in the Bible?
• What is the ugab mentioned in the Bible? And the “organ” referred to in the King James Bible?
• Answers about music in the Bible
• Answers about instrumental music in the Bible
• Named musicians in the Bible
• Answers about men of the Bible