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# לֶמֶךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3929

**Lamech** — used 11 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Lamech [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3929/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לֶ֫מֶך: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3929/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (on orig. form cf. LagBN 77; conj. as to meaning BuUrgesch. 102, 129);—ל׳ Gn 4:19 + 7 times; לָ֑מֶךְ 4:18 + 2 times;— son of מְתוּשָׁאֵל (Cainite) Gn 4:18, 19, 23(×2), 24 (all J). son of מְתוּשֶׁלַח (Sethite) Gn 5:25, 26, 28, 30, 31 (all P), 1 Ch 1:3.—𝔊 Λαμεχ.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Lamech (9); of Lamech (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.3/#tree)

חֲנ֥וֹךְ מְתוּשֶׁ֖לַח לָֽמֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* Enoch Methuselah Lamech

*JPS 1917:* Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech;

[Genesis 4:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.24/#tree)

כִּ֥י שִׁבְעָתַ֖יִם יֻקַּם־קָ֑יִן וְלֶ֖מֶךְ שִׁבְעִ֥ים וְשִׁבְעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) sevenfold he.will.be.avenged Cain and Lamech seventy and seven

*JPS 1917:* If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3929.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3929/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).