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Personal data Lamech / למך / لمك "لمك" 

• Nickname is لمك.
• He was born about -3301 TO ABT 100 in City of Enoch.
• He died about -2524 TO ABT 100 in East Of Eden.
• A child of Methuselah / מתושלח / متوشلخ and Edna
• This information was last updated on January 28, 2012.

Household of Lamech / למך / لمك "لمك"

He is married to Ashmua / Betnos.

They got married about -2943.

Child(ren):

1. Noah / נח / نوح  ± 100-± 100 

Notes about Lamech / למך / لمك "لمك"

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Lamech, descendant of Cain
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Lamech, the descendant of Cain, is the individual at the end of one of the genealogies of Adam, on the line descending from Cain. For reasons of similarity between the two lines, critical scholarship regards this Lamech, and the Lamech at the end of the other line, who is father of Noah, as one and the same individual.
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* 1 Biblical context
* 2 The names
o 2.1 Interpretation
* 3 The Song of the Sword

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Biblical context

Sandwiched between two genealogical lines, the passage describing Lamekh and his children is fairly substantive:

Lamekh had two wives: Adah, and Tsilah. Adah gave birth to Yaval, the father of tent-dwellers, and cattle owners. His brother was Yuval, the father of harpists, and pipers. Tsilah, on the other hand, gave birth to Tuval-Qayin, who instructed the artificers of brass and iron. Tuval-Qayin's sister was Na'amah. And Lamekh said to Adah and Tsilah, his wives:

Hear my voice: ye wives of Lamekh, hearken unto my speech:
For I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
If Qayin shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamekh seventy-sevenfold.

-Genesis 4:19-24 in paraphrase
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The names

There are various suggestions of the correct translations for the names:
Name Hebrew Possible translations
Lamech ?????? Pauper (via Hebrew), Priest/Servant of God (via Akkadian)
Adah ????? Ornament, Dawn
Zillah ??? Shadow
Jabal ??? Shepherd
Jubal The ram's horn, Musician, (also) stream
Tubal-Cain ???? ??? Thou will be brought of Cain (not translating Cain), Blacksmith (translating Cain)
Naamah ???? Beautiful, Pleasure

The older Septuagint, unlike the masoretic text, does not present the name Tubal rather than Tubal-Cain.

Translating the names as well, it is possible to read the text of the story of Lamech as:

God's servant took two wives, light and darkness. The light brought forth the shepherd, who was the father of tent-dwellers, and herdsmen, and his brother was the musician, who was the father of harpists and pipers. But the darkness brought forth the blacksmith, the forger of brass, and of iron, and his sister was pleasure.

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Interpretation

When fully translated, the text has a strong resemblance simply to a basic mythology concerning the origin of the various forms of civilisation, the shepherds and musicians being products of the day, and pleasure being a product of the night. Blacksmiths, in carrying out their trade, are also associated with the darkness. Thus, in a sense, Lamech could be interpreted as a culture hero. Some of the names also appear to demostrate punning - Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal rhyme, and appear to be derived from the same root - JBL (YVL in modern Hebrew): to bring forth, (also) to carry. A similar description existed amongst Phoenicians.

The names are instead interpreted in the Midrash as an attack on polygamy. Adah is there interpreted as the deposed one, implying that Lamech spurned her in favour of Zillah, whose own name is understood to mean she shaded herself [from Zillah at Lamech's side]. The Midrash consequently regards Adah as having been treated as a slave, tyrannised by her husband, who was at the beck and call of his mistress, Zillah. It further goes on to claim that part of the immorality, which had led God to flood the earth, was the polygamy practised by Lamech and his generation.

The rabbinical tradition is just as condemning of Naamah. While a minority, such as Abba b. Kahana, see Naamah as having become Noah's wife, and being so named because her conduct was pleasing to God, the majority of classical rabbinical sources consider her name to be due to her singing pleasant songs in worship of idols.
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The Song of the Sword

The last part of the tale of Lamech (Genesis 4:23-24), takes the form of a brief poem, which refers back to the curse of Cain. In the poem, Lamech's stance resembles that of a supreme warrior, able to avenge himself absolutely. However, no explanation of who Lamech supposedly killed is ever given in the tanakh. Some scholars have proposed that it is connected to the invention, contextually by Tubal-Cain, of the sword, for which reason the poem is often referred to as the Song of the Sword. The poem may originate from the mysterious Book of the Wars of the Lord, though the greater context for it is likely to remain obscure.

However, this paucity of context did not stop a rabbinical tradition growing up around it. The Talmud and Midrash present an extensive legend, told, for example, by Rashi, in which Lamech first loses his sight from age, and had to be led by Tubal-Cain, the seventh generation from Cain. Tubal-Cain saw in the distance something that he first took for an animal, but it was actually Cain (still alive, due to the extensive life span of the antediluvians) whom Lamech had accidentally killed with an arrow. When they discovered who it was, Lamech, in sorrow, clapped his hands together, which (for an unclear reason) kills Tubal-Cain. In consequence, Lamech's wives desert him. A similar legend is preserved in the pseudepigraphic 2nd Book of Adam and Eve, Chapter XIII; in this version Tubal-Cain is not named, but is instead referred to as "the young shepherd." After Lamech claps his hands he strikes the young shepherd on the head. To ensure his death, he then smashed his head with a rock.

An alternate form of this negative attitude towards Lamech (such as Targum Pseudo-Jonathan) claims that even though Lamech did not kill anyone, his wives refused to associate with him and denied him sex, on the grounds that Cain's line was to be annihilated after seven generations. The poem is then given by Lamech to allay their fears. Other classical sources, such as Josephus, see the word seventy-seven as the number of sons which Lamech eventually had.

Extending on this classical view of Lamech is the Book of Moses, regarded in Mormonism as scripture. According to this Latter-day Saint text, Lamech entered into a secret pact with Satan, as had Cain before him, becoming a second Master Mahan. When Irad (an ancestor of Lamech) learned his secret and began to publicise it, Lamech murdered him. News of the murder was spread by Lamech's two wives, leading to his being cast out of society.
Torah/Old Testament's Genealogy from Adam to David
Adam to Shem Adam Seth Enos Kenan Mahalalel Jared Enoch Methuselah Lamech Noah Shem
Arpachshad to Jacob Arpachshad Shelah Eber Peleg Reu Serug Nahor Terah Abraham Isaac Jacob
Judah to David Judah Perez Hezron Aram Amminadab Nahshon Salmon Boaz Obed Jesse David

Lamech was born in 3130 BC. He died in 2353 BC. Parents: Methuselah and Ednâ.
Spouse: Bêtênôs. Lamech and Bêtênôs were married. Children were: Noah.

Lamech (pronounced /'le?m?k/) (Hebrew: ?????-Lemech?) is the name de an eighth generation descendant de Seth (Genesis 5:25). He is the son de Methuselah and was the father de Noah (Genesis 5:29).

Not to be confused with Lamech, descendant de Cain.

Rootsweb Feldman
URL: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3044567&id=I30844
# D: I30844
# Name: LAMECH 1 2 3
# Sex: M
# Birth: in 3237 BC 2 3
# Death: in 2460 BC 2 3
# Change Date: 31 MAR 2002 1 2 3

Father: METHUSELAH b: in 3424 BC
Mother: Living EDNA

Marriage 1 Living BETENOS

Children

1. Has Children NOAH b: 3055 in 3055 BC

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{geni:occupation} 777 år, lived 777 years, Prophet, Roy d'Ugarit

{geni:about_me} [http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0105.htm#25 Genesis 5:25,28-31]

Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamech Lamech] and [http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%9A_%D7%91%D7%9F_%D7%9E%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%97 למך]

Please be careful to NOT confuse this Lamech, with the [http://www.geni.com/profile/index/6000000007133075358 other one], who is descended from Cain. It was the other Cain who was married to Zilla and Ada.

The lifetimes of this Lamech and Adam overlapped. Lamech had faith in God, and after calling his son’s name Noah (probably meaning “Rest; Consolation”), he uttered the words: “This one will bring us comfort from our work and from the pain of our hands resulting from the ground which Jehovah has cursed.” (Ge 5:29) These words found fulfillment when the curse on the ground was lifted during Noah’s lifetime. (Ge 8:21) Lamech had other sons and daughters. He lived 777 years, dying about five years before the Flood. (Ge 5:30, 31) He is listed in the genealogy of Jesus at Luke 3:36.

*[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867528,00.html Time Magazine Dead Sea Scrolls find re Lamech]

From an Israeli scholar comes a new and, in itself, marvelous addition to the story of Noah, taken from the latest of the Dead Sea Scrolls to be unrolled.

The story, reported one of its translators, Soldier-Scholar Yigael Yadin of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, was written on goatskin in Aramaic in "a very pleasant hand."

It tells how Noah's father Lamech (son of Methuselah) was married to his own sister—a custom necessitated in earliest times by the shortage of women.

Lamech, according to the scroll, began to suspect that Baby Noah was not his own child—apparently with good reason. At birth the child "rose up in the hands of the midwife and conversed with the Lord of Righteousness." His body was "white as snow and red as the blooming of the rose," his hair was "white as wool," and when he opened his eyes they lighted the house "like the sun."

Fearing that Noah was really the child of "the Watchers, the Holy Ones or the fallen angels," Lamech spoke to his sister-wife about it in no uncertain terms, and she in turn replied "with great vigor," reminding Lamech of the intimate details of Noah's conception.

Still worried, Lamech asked his father Methuselah (who died at the age of 969) to apply to his grandfather Enoch, who had disappeared at the age of 365 and won his "dwelling-place among the angels.'' But what immortal Enoch told Lamech about the future architect is unknown.

The rest of the story is missing.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867528,00.html#ixzz1FPXbdgo6
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'''Bible Verses that Refer to Lamech:'''

'''Genesis 4:18'''

To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.

'''Genesis 5:25'''

When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech.

'''Genesis 5:26'''

After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

'''Genesis 5:28'''

When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son.

'''Genesis 5:30'''

After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.

'''Genesis 5:31'''

Altogether, Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.

'''1 Chronicles 1:3'''

Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah.

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Genesis
And Lamech lived one undred and eighty two years, and became the father of a son. Now he called his name Noah, saying, “This oneshall give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground from which the Lord has cursed. Then Lamech lived five hundred and ninety five years after he became the father of Noah, and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy seven years, and he died.
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Lamec tenía ciento ochenta y dos años cuando nació un hijo suyo, al que llamó Noé, porque dijo: “El Señor maldijo la tierra, y tenemos que trabajar muy duro para cultivarla; pero este niño nos hará descansar.” Después que Noé nació, Lamec vivió quinientos noventa y cinco años más, y tuvo otros hijos e hijas; así que vivió setecientos setenta y siete años en total. A esa edad murió! . . . .
(c. 3138-2361).

Gen 5:25; 1 Chr 1:3; Luke 3:36

Sired Noah at age 182; lived 595 more years; died at age 777.
Born 3313 less 187 = 3126 BC

Book of Rememberance - Meacham

3126 BC-2349 BC

lived 777 years

Gen 5:25; 1 Chr 1:3; Luke 3:36

Sired Noah at age 182; lived 595 more years; died at age 777.
Born 3313 less 187 = 3126 BC

Book of Rememberance - Meacham

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