One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Lamech. Every Lamech in the Bible
- verses
- 7
- first named
- Genesis 5:25
- last named
- Luke 3:37
- period
- before the Flood
- tribe
- Early Patriarch
Description
Who was Lamech?
Lamech was the son of Methuselah and the father of Noah (Gen.5.25,28-29). He was born when Methuselah was 187 years old (Gen.5.25). Lamech named his son Noah, saying, "This one will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed" (Gen.5.29). Lamech lived 595 years after the birth of Noah and had other sons and daughters (Gen.5.30). He died at the age of 777, making him the second-oldest person mentioned in the Bible after his father, Methuselah (Gen.5.31). Lamech is also mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Luke (Luk.3.36) and in the genealogy of Adam in the book of Chronicles (1Ch.1.3). His life and legacy are significant in the context of the pre-flood world and the lineage of the patriarchs leading to Noah.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Ancestor of
Child of
Descendant of
Father of
- NoahregistryGenesis 5:30Luke 3:36
Stands in the same events as
- Noah2 events
- Methuselah1 event
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Lamech is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
7 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (5), 1 Chronicles (1) and Luke (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 7, across 3 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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