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Strong's #3929: Lemek (pronounced leh'-mek)

from an unused root of uncertain meaning; Lemek, the name of two antediluvian patriarchs:--Lamech.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

lemek

Lamech = "powerful"

1) the 5th lineal descendant from Cain, husband of Adah and Zillah, father of sons, Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-cain, and daughter, Naamah

2) father of Noah

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from an unused root of uncertain meaning



Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

Genesis 4:18: "and Methusael begot Lamech."
Genesis 4:19: " And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name"
Genesis 4:23: " And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives"
Genesis 4:23: "Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain"
Genesis 4:24: "Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold."
Genesis 5:25: "years, and begot Lamech:"
Genesis 5:26: "after he begot Lamech seven hundred eighty and two"
Genesis 5:28: " And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begot a son:"
Genesis 5:30: " And Lamech lived after he begot Noah five hundred"
Genesis 5:31: "And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven"
1 Chronicles 1:3: "Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,"









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