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Lamech

American  
[ley-mik] / ˈleɪ mɪk /

noun

  1. (in the Bible) the son of Enoch, and the father of Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-cain.


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Just after the above-cited verse, we read in Genesis 4:19 about Lamech, who took two wives.

From Salon Jul. 19, 2015

This Lamech is associated with another Lamech in the previous chapter and in Masonic legend the children of this other Lamech are considered founders of both Freemasonry and Geometry.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2012

The Lamech scroll will now be opened, and the Hebrew University will publish its text.

From The New Yorker May 6, 1955

By this time, the Metropolitan had announced that he would not sell the Lamech roll separately.

From The New Yorker May 6, 1955

Or, it may be understood actively, to mean that in the time of Lamech the posterity of Cain so greatly increased that the true Church was quite overwhelmed by them.

From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by John Nicholas Lenker

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