Word

לֶמֶךְ

Lemek · H3929 · Hebrew · proper noun · 11 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 people

Lamechfather of Noah7 verses
Lamechfather of Jubal4 verses

Meanings

Lamech

A man who was the son of Methushael and a descendant of Cain, and the father of Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-Cain

Examples
Genesis 4:18 Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.
Genesis 4:19 Lamech took two wives for himself: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.
Genesis 4:23 Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, Listen to my voice, You wives of Lamech, Pay attention to my words, For I have killed a man for wounding me; And a boy for striking me!
Lamech

A man who was the son of Methuselah and a descendant of Seth, and the father of Noah

Examples
Genesis 5:25 Now Methuselah lived 187 years, and fathered Lamech.
Genesis 5:26 Then Methuselah lived 782 years after he fathered Lamech, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:28 Now Lamech lived 182 years, and fathered a son.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What it doesIt is the subject

4 occurrences in 3 groups

חָיָהto be alive, to become alive, to live 2
לָקַחto take, to receive 1
אָמַרto say 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 1 groups

יָלַדto bear 3

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

יוֹםday, time 1
אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: Lamech names two figures in Genesis: Cain's descendant of Genesis 4:18-24 and the father of Noah in Genesis 5:25-31, placing the name among personal names.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3929. Lemek לֶ֫מֶךְ proper name, masculine (on original form compare LagBN 77;…

H3929. Lemek
לֶ֫מֶךְ proper name, masculine (on original form compare LagBN 77; conjecture as to meaning BuUrgesch. 102, 129); — ׳ל Gen 4:19 Gen 4:7t.; לָ֑מֶךְ Gen 4:18 Gen 4:2t.; —
1 son of מְתוּשָׁאֵל (Cainite) Gen 4:18-19, Gen 4:23 (twice in verse); Gen 4:24 (all J).
2 son of מְתוּשֶׁלַח (Sethite) Gen 5:25-26, Gen 5:28, Gen 5:30, Gen 5:31 (all P), 1Ch 1:3. — ᵐ5 Ααμεχ.
לְמִנִּי לְמִן, see מִן
9b.
לְמַעַן see מען below ענה.
לֹעַ see below I. לוּעַ.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People11 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0