Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H3929
לֶמֶךְ
Lemekleh'-mek
Lamech
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3929is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3929
Lemek, the name of two antediluvian patriarchs
The King James renders it: Lamech.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Lemek is rendered "Lamech". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Ten of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 4:18Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methusael, and Methusael was the father of Lamech.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methusael, and Methusael was the father of Lamech.
Genesis 4:18לָֽמֶךְ׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Ten of the word's eleven uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Lamech10
- and Lamech1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- לֶ֔מֶךְ3
- לָֽמֶךְ׃3
- וְלֶ֖מֶךְ1
- לֶ֖מֶךְ1
- לֶ֜מֶךְ1
- לֶ֕מֶךְ1
- לֶ֗מֶךְ1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)10HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npm
Genesis
ten uses
Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methusael, and Methusael was the father of Lamech.
- לָֽמֶךְ׃lamekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Lamech
And Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.
- לֶ֖מֶךְlemekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Lamech
Then Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.
- לֶ֜מֶךְlemekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Lamech
- לֶ֔מֶךְlemekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Lamech
If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”
- וְלֶ֖מֶךְvelemekhconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Lamech
When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.
- לָֽמֶךְ׃lamekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Lamech
And after he had become the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.
- לֶ֔מֶךְlemekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Lamech
When Lamech was 182 years old, he had a son.
- לֶ֕מֶךְlemekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Lamech
And after he had become the father of Noah, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.
- לֶ֗מֶךְlemekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Lamech
So Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.
- לֶ֔מֶךְlemekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Lamech
1 Chronicles
one use
Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech.
- לָֽמֶךְ׃lamekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Lamech
The letters
Gematria 90· 570 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.