Bible Person

Mahalaleel

Male · 7 cross references

Mahalaleel, also written Maleleel in Luke, is the son of Cainan and father of Jared in the early Sethite genealogy. He belongs to the preserved sequence that links Adam's line to Noah. First appears in Gen 5:12.1

AI summary: Mahalaleel matters because the cross references retain him as a stable link in the repeated genealogical witness of Scripture. His life is not expanded through narrative scenes, yet his name persists in Genesis, Chronicles, and Luke as part of the line that carries redemptive history forward. That repetition is itself theological, showing that the ancestry is not incidental. Taken together, the material presents Mahalaleel as an early patriarch whose importance lies in the faithfully transmitted line of generations.1

Central Figure

Mahalaleel

The son of Cainan, of the line of Seth (Gen.