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Genesis 4:21

And the name of his brother is Stream,191 himself has become father of the whole of him-who-seizes the harp and pipe.

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Strong’s #3106, יוֹבָל, Jubal. This is from the same root as #3104 יוֹבֵל, jobel which means stream, watercourse. Jubal, Jabal, jobel, etc. are all based on the root yabal (#2986) which means to conduct or carry along as in the bearing along of a mysterious present to the place of the Name of the Master in Isaiah 18:7. The passage appears to present a cryptic image of a pair of “eyes” from which a pair of “streams” come. The Hebrew word for “world” tebel is also based on this construct. Considering that a ram’s horn “carries” or “flows” the breath it fits very well with the fact that he is the father of musicians.