Fratricide victim

The answer

ABEL

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ABEL answer page.

Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1975. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ABEL

Every other clue in this collection answered by ABEL, most used first.

• Cain's brother - used 144 times, most recently in 2026
• First victim - used 131 times, most recently in 2026
• Cain's victim - used 105 times, most recently in 2026
• Brother of Cain - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
• Genesis victim - used 102 times, most recently in 2025
• Explorer Tasman - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
• Biblical brother - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
• Genesis brother - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• Genesis shepherd - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• Biblical shepherd - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Eve's second son - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Genesis son - used 45 times, most recently in 2023
• Second son - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
• Fourth person - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• First shepherd - used 34 times, most recently in 2020
• Genesis name - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Adam's second son - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Third man - used 32 times, most recently in 2018
• Actor Walter - used 31 times, most recently in 1985
• The third man - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Ill-fated Biblical brother - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• First murder victim - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Son of Adam - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
• Eve's second - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• First fratricide victim - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Early shepherd - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• First family member - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
• "Green Mansions" hero - used 17 times, most recently in 2009
• Son of Eve - used 17 times, most recently in 2021
• Labor leader I. W.____ - used 16 times, most recently in 2018
• Biblical victim - used 15 times, most recently in 2019
• Seth's brother - used 15 times, most recently in 2009
• Hero of "Green Mansions." - used 14 times, most recently in 1967
• Member of the first family - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• Victim in Genesis - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Biblical name. - used 12 times, most recently in 1972
• One of Adam's sons - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• "Kane and ___" (Jeffrey Archer novel) - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Adam and Eve's second son - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Genesis figure - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Son of Adam and Eve - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Cain's sibling - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Early Genesis victim - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Magwitch of "Great Expectations" - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Third person - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Adam's second - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Adam's son - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Brother of Seth - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• Early victim - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• First homicide victim - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• First second son - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Former labor leader - used 7 times, most recently in 1993
• Genesis fatality - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• One of Eve's sons - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Shepherd in Genesis - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Tasman. - used 7 times, most recently in 1968
• The brother in "Am I my brother's keeper?" - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Biblical fratricide victim - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Biblical murder victim - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Cain's younger brother - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Dutch navigator Tasman - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Eve's son - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• First victim of sibling rivalry - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Genesis sibling - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Ill-fated shepherd - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Initial victim - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Shepherd of Genesis - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Slain shepherd - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• ___ Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

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• Victim of Pizarro - INCA, used 23 times
• Pizarro victim - INCA, used 19 times
• Gudrun's victim - ATLI, used 18 times
• April 1 victim - FOOL, used 11 times
• Matador's victim - TORO, used 8 times

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