Lamech, Methuselah’s son, lived for 777 years.
Noah, Lamech’s son, lived for 950 years.
Methuselah then fathered Lamech at the age of 187, after which he lived an additional 782 years, having other sons and daughters, for a total lifespan of 969 years—the longest recorded in the Bible—before his death.
The Genesis Apocryphon, a Dead Sea Scroll text, involves Methuselah as an intermediary: his son Lamech consults him about Noah's unusual birth, and Methuselah seeks confirmation from Enoch that Noah is legitimate and righteous.
Lamech's 777 years repeats the digit 7 three times (7 × 111), highlighting divine perfection or fullness.
The claim usually takes the eight middle patriarchs, Seth to Lamech.
Multiply the 6,695 years of Seth to Lamech by 36 and you get 241,020.
The numbers 365 for Enoch and 777 for Lamech appear symbolic.
Methuselah: Lamech at 187 years; lived 969 years.
Lamech: Noah at 182 years; lived 777 years.
Neither the Cuneiform nor the Greek names appear to have any connection with the Biblical Lamech and Noah.
The grandfather of Noah, through his son Lamech.
This Lamech is a different man from Methuselah's son Lamech, the father of Noah.
Lamech boasts to his wives.
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Lamech (Father) – Mentioned in the Bible, Book of Jubilees, 1 Enoch, and Genesis Apocryphon.
In like manner Lamech, both in the signification of his name and also iv the savage character attributed to him by the legend attached to his memory, is a true synonyme of Agrotes."
Only, in Sanchoniathon the genealogy does not end with Amynos and Magos, as that of the Cainites in the Bible does with the three sons of Lamech.
We have, also, the fact that the Phœnician name for their goddess Astynome (Ashtar No'emâ), whom the Greeks called Nemaun, was the same as the name of the sister of the three sons of Lamech, as given in Genesis--Na'emah, or Na'amah.
Genesis names two men called Lamech.
Genesis 5:25 says Methuselah was 187 when Lamech was born.
Lamech in turn was 182 when Noah was born, according to the Masoretic Text.
Lamech lived 595 more years and had other sons and daughters, so the Hebrew count gives him 777 years in all.
Lamech names his son and says what he hopes the boy will bring.
Luke 3:36 lists Noah as "the son of Lamech" in the genealogy of Jesus.
25 BC to 50 AD, is also known as the "Apocalypse of Lamech".
In the early columns, which Sidnie White Crawford notes are told by Lamech in his own voice, he grows afraid that the newborn Noah came from one of the Watchers.
He then sends Methuselah to Enoch, who confirms that Noah is Lamech's son and a righteous man.
Lamech runs to his father in fear.
Lamech tells Methuselah he doubts the child is his own.
Lamech is to name him Noah.
In the fifteenth jubilee, in the years it counts as 701 to 707 from creation, Lamech married Bêtênôs, daughter of Bârâkî'îl, a brother of his father.
Mahmud of Ghazni, the Ghaznavid sultan, built a tomb and gardens over the site, and the town of Mihtarlam is said to take its name from Lamech.
In Darren Aronofsky's 2014 film Noah, Marton Csokas plays Lamech.
The other Lamech appears in Genesis 4:17 to 24.
Lamech claims a vengeance far larger than Cain's.
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.19 Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock.21 His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes.22 Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron.
Tubal-Cain’s sister was Naamah.23 Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words.
I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.24 If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.”25 Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”26 Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh.
Lamech, Methuselah’s son, lived for 777 years.
Noah, Lamech’s son, lived for 950 years.
John Collins reads Lamech’s age as a symbol.
The Lamech of Cain’s line boasts of “seventy-sevenfold” vengeance (Genesis 4:24).
The Lamech of Seth’s line lives 777 years.
In 5:31 the second Lamech’s lifespan is 111 times seven years; in Hebrew, שׁבע שׁבעים שׁנה ושׁבע מאות שׁנה [sheba‘ shib‘im shanah usheba‘ me’ot shanah], “seven and seventy years and seven hundred years.”
Columns 2-5 tell the story of the birth of Noah, using both third-person accounts, and first person language from the point of view of Lamech, Noah's father.
The text details an exasperated Lamech, who questions whether the child being borne by his wife, Bath-Enosh, is his own, or belongs to one of the Nephilim.
Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spoke, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech, and said to him: Go to Noah and tell him in my name "Hide thyself!" and reveal to him the end that is approaching: that the whole earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come upon the whole earth, and will destroy all that is on it.
The names Methuselah, Lamech, Adam, and Seth appear in the Bible's Book of Genesis, chapter 5, as part of the genealogy tracing the line from Adam to Noah.
Second, in one common interpretation, the "sons of God" refer to the godly descendants of Seth (including figures like Methuselah and Lamech), who intermarried with the ungodly line of Cain, leading to corruption.
Lamech, Methuselah’s son, lived for 777 years.
Noah, Lamech’s son, lived for 950 years.
25And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
26and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
28And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
30And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
31and all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
And Lamech took two Ishshah the name of one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
And Lamech said to the Ishshah Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: I can kill human servants and wound their children with one blow.
Because if Cain can take vengeance sevenfold, then Lamech seventy sevenfold.
18To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.