Lamech
- Dates
- 3080–2303 BC
Name means "the striker down" or "the wild man." He was the seventh in descent from Seth, the only son of Methuselah, and the one who begot Noah. Lamech lived 777 years and died a few years before the flood.
In detail
A descendant of Seth and son of Methuselah. When he was 182 years old his son Noah was born. He named the child Noah, meaning "rest," or "comfort," perhaps expecting this son to bring rest for him and his contemporaries from the curse under which the human race lived. He died at the age of 777 years (Gen 5:25, 28—31).
Bible passages
- Genesis 5:25
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
- Genesis 5:31
And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
Text of the King James Version.