The Definition of the word Lamech

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).