One of Adam's sons

The answer

ABEL

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

Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1924. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• CAIN (3 uses in xd)

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
• Fratricide victim - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• 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
• "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

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• One of the Great Lakes - ERIE, used 258 times
• Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
• From square one - ANEW, used 181 times
• Wise one - SAGE, used 146 times
• Adam's grandson - ENOS, used 120 times
• One - UNIT, used 118 times

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