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The name Lamech is derived from the verb _makak_, which signifies to humble, to diminish, to suppress.
Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood Martin Luther 1514
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The second murderer was one of Cain’s descendants, a man by the name of Lamech.
Become a Better You Joel Osteen 2007
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By this speech of Lamech, which is here recorded, and probably was much talked of in those times, he further appears to have been a wicked man, as Cain's accursed race generally were.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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But the name "Lamech" signifies that God, at the time in which Lamech was born, inflicted on the posterity of Cain their due punishment.
Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood Martin Luther 1514
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Armin Ehrenzweig, “Kain und Lamech,” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 35 1915: 1ff.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Lamech was born in 874 (3130 B.C.) lived 777 years and died in 1651 (2353 B.)
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Armin Ehrenzweig, “Kain und Lamech,” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 35 1915: 1ff.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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The Jerusalem Talmud (Yevamot 6: 5, 7c) attests that Lamech married Adah for sexual pleasure, and finds an allusion to this aim in her name: “[She was named] Adah, because he would have pleasure [mitaden] with her body.”
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According to the genealogy of Gen 4: 17 – 19, Adah is one of the two wives of Lamech and the mother of two sons.
Adah 1: Bible. 2009
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The midrash also relates (Tanhuma, Genesis 11) that after Lamech unwittingly killed Cain and Tubal-cain, Adah and Zillah found him with his two victims.
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