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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

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

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

If Cain shall he avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

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