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Lamech
the name means from an unused root of uncertain meaning Strong's Lexicon
Lamech, the father of Noah, lived 777 years.
From Easton's Bible Dictionary
The strikerdown; the wild man. (1.) The fifth in descent from Cain. He was the first to violate the primeval ordinance of marriage (Gen. 4:18-24). His address to his two wives, Adah and Zillah (4:23, 24), is the only extant example of antediluvian poetry. It has been called "Lamech's sword-song." He was "rude and ruffianly," fearing neither God nor man. With him the curtain falls on the race of Cain. We know nothing of his descendants.
Easton's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 1897 — public domain, quoted in full and unedited.
Family
Parents
Methuselah
Children
Noah
From STEPBible's TIPNR genealogy data. A relationship the data marks uncertain is not shown here.
First named at Genesis 5:25.
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Verses that name Lamech
- Genesis 5:25 When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.
- Genesis 5:26 And after he had become the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:28 When Lamech was 182 years old, he had a son.
- Genesis 5:30 And after he had become the father of Noah, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:31 So Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.
- 1 Chronicles 1:3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah.
- Luke 3:36 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,