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Strong's #3929 - לֶמֶךְ

Transliteration
Lemek
Phonetics
leh'-mek
Origin
from an unused root of uncertain meaning
Parts of Speech
Proper Name Masculine
TWOT
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

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

Frequency Lists
Verse Results
KJV (11)
Genesis 10
1 Chronicles 1
NAS (11)
Genesis 10
1 Chronicles 1
HCS (11)
Genesis 10
1 Chronicles 1
BSB (21)
Genesis 20
1 Chronicles 1
ESV (11)
Genesis 10
1 Chronicles 1
WEB (11)
Genesis 10
1 Chronicles 1
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 לֶ֫מֶךְ proper name, masculine (on original form compare Lag BN 77; conjecture as to meaning Bu Urgesch. 102,129); — ׳ל Genesis 4:19 7t.; לָ֑מֶךְ Genesis 4:18 2t.; —

1 son ofמְתוּשָׁאֵל (Cainite) Genesis 4:18,19,23 (twice in verse); Genesis 4:24 (all J).

2 son of מְתוּשֶׁלַח (Sethite) Genesis 5:25,26,28,30,31 (all P), 1 Chronicles 1:3. — ᵐ5 Ααμεχ.

לְמִן, לְמִנִּי see מִן

9b.

לְמַעַן see מען below ענה.

לֹעַ see below I. לוּעַ.


Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

לֶמֶךְ pr.n. Lamech

(1) the son of Methusael, of the race of Cain; well known for having misused the arms which his sons had invented, -Gen. 4:1824.

(2) the son of Methuselah, of the race of Sheth, -Gen. 5:2531.


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List of Word Forms
וְלֶ֖מֶךְ ולמך לֶ֔מֶךְ לֶ֕מֶךְ לֶ֖מֶךְ לֶ֗מֶךְ לֶ֜מֶךְ לָֽמֶךְ׃ למך למך׃ lā·meḵ Lamech lāmeḵ le·meḵ Lemech lemeḵ veLemech wə·le·meḵ wəlemeḵ
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