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Lamech

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[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

In Genesis chapter five 187 is the age at which Methuselah begets Lamech.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2012

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

From The New Yorker • May 6, 1955

Betenos was the wife of Lamech, one of the patriarchs in the early part of Genesis, and the identification seems established by a passage that reads, “Then I, Lamech, hastened to go in unto Betenos.”

From The New Yorker • May 6, 1955

For the words of the text are not the words of the Lord, as we have said, but the words of Lamech himself.

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