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This is Lamech son of Methuselah and father of Noah. For the other Lamech, see Lamech the Murderer.

Lamech (Hebrew: למך, Lāmeḵ; Greek: Λάμεχ, Lamech; often translated "powerful" but more properly "lament, despairing"[1]) (Tammuz 874 AMJuly 3129 BC
Av 631 He
Tammuz 874 AM
-Tammuz 1651 AMJuly 2352 BC
Av 1408 He
Tammuz 1651 AM
) was the son of Methuselah and the father of Noah. He was born to his father Methuselah when Methuselah was 187 years old, in 874 AM.[2]

Lamech had a son, Noah, when he was 182 years old (1056 AM).[3] In naming his son, Lamech said that Noah would bring rest to an accursed world. He lived to be 777 years9,610.149 mon
283,793.345 da
old, dying in 1651 AM, five years before the global flood.[4]
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  3. Ussher, op. cit., pgh. 24
  4. Ussher, op. cit., pgh. 32
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