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Lamech
[ ley-mik ]
noun
- (in the Bible) the son of Enoch, and the father of Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-cain.
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In one of them, descriptive of antediluvial history, is a painting of Lamech shooting Cain with a bow and arrow.
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Both here and in the Squieres Tale we find the allusions to Lamech, and to blue as the colour of constancy; see notes to ll.
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“And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: and he called his name Noah” (28, 29).
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Like Lamech (who also might have been defending his own life), he had slain a man to his wounding, and a young man to his hurt.
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The chosen people, the Hebrews, were polygamists from the time of Lamech, evidently with the approval of the Deity.
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