Lamech

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Lamech
     the strikerdown; the wild man. (1.) The fifth in descent from
     Cain. He was the first to violate the primeval ordinance of
     marriage (Gen. 4:18-24). His address to his two wives, Adah and
     Zillah (4:23, 24), is the only extant example of antediluvian
     poetry. It has been called "Lamech's sword-song." He was "rude


     and ruffianly," fearing neither God nor man. With him the
     curtain falls on the race of Cain. We know nothing of his
     descendants.
     
       (2.) The seventh in descent from Seth, being the only son of
     Methuselah. Noah was the oldest of his several sons (Gen.
     5:25-31; Luke 3:36).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Lamech, poor; made low