3050/3049 BC
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Lamech
life, dates, and events
This record brings together the lifespan, dates, Scripture, and every dated event assigned to Lamech.
Life record
Birth, lifespan, and death
Creation years 874–1651
Genesis 5:31 · 2273/2272 BC
Original year-by-year timeline
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Reference library
Look up Lamech in the study works
These links search five public-domain reference works for this person. An author’s definition or conclusion is a study aid—not Scripture—and should be examined against the KJV text.
Public-domain referenceEaston’s Bible Dictionary
Dictionary and historical background
Find Lamech →Public-domain referenceSmith’s Bible DictionaryPeople, places, customs, and history
Find Lamech →Public-domain referenceHitchcock’s Bible NamesThe name and its traditional meaning
Find Lamech →Public-domain referenceNave’s Topical BibleRelated KJV passages arranged by subject
Find Lamech →Public-domain referenceTorrey’s Topical TextbookRelated biblical subjects and references
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Events involving Lamech
Creation year 8743050/3049 BC
Lamech is born
Year 687 plus Methuselah’s 187 years gives year 874. Jasher 3:13 reads eighty-seven years here, a 100-year difference from Genesis.
Genesis 5:25 · KJV
“And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:”
Jasher 3:13
Open Creation year 874 in the Original Timeline →And these are the generations of Enoch, Methuselah, Elisha, and Elimelech, three sons; and their sisters were Melca and Nahmah, and Methuselah lived eighty-seven years and he begat Lamech.
Read these verses in our Jasher reader →Creation year 16512273/2272 BC
Lamech dies
Lamech was born in year 874 and lived 777 years, placing his death in year 1651. The Sacred Texts Jasher edition gives a different total; this date follows the KJV genealogy.
Genesis 5:30–31 · KJV
“And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.”
Jasher 5:19–20 — textual difference
Open Creation year 1651 in the Original Timeline →And Lamech the father of Noah, died in those days; yet verily he did not go with all his heart in the ways of his father, and he died in the hundred and ninety-fifth year of the life of Noah. And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy years, and he died.
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