Genesis 5:28

And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Lamech	לֶ֕מֶךְ Le.mekh	H3929	Lemek · proper noun, a man's name
lived	וַֽיְחִי vay.chi-	H2421	to live · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
hundred	וּמְאַ֣ת u.me.'At	H3967	a hundred · conjunction + cardinal number, feminine singular construct
eighty	וּשְׁמֹנִ֛ים u.she.mo.Nim	H8084	eighty · conjunction + cardinal number, masculine plural absolute
two	שְׁתַּ֧יִם she.Ta.yim	H8147	two · cardinal number, feminine dual absolute
years	שָׁנָ֖ה sha.Nah	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
begat	וַיּ֖וֹלֶד vai.Yo.led	H3205	to bear young · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
son	בֵּֽן Ben	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 5:28–end

Here we have the first mention of Noah, of whom we shall read much in the following chapters. Observe, I. His name, with the reason of it: Noah signifies rest; his parents gave him that name, with a prospect of his being a more than ordinary blessing to his generation: This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed. Here is, 1. Lamech's complaint of the calamitous state of human life. By the entrance of sin, and the entail of the curse for sin, our condition has become very miserable: our whole life is spent in labour, and our time filled up with continual toil. God having cursed the ground, it is as much as some can do,…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 5:26

Lamech--a different person from the one mentioned in the preceding chapter [Gen 4:18]. Like his namesake, however, he also spoke in numbers on occasion of the birth of Noah--that is, "rest" or "comfort" [Gen 5:29, Margin]. "The allusion is, undoubtedly, to the penal consequences of the fall in earthly toils and sufferings, and to the hope of a Deliverer, excited by the promise made to Eve. That this expectation was founded on a divine communication we infer from the importance attached to it and the confidence of its expression" [PETER SMITH].

Adam Clarke on Genesis 5:27

The days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years - This is the longest life mentioned in Scripture, and probably the longest ever lived; but we have not authority to say positively that it was the longest. Before the flood, and before artificial refinements were much known and cultivated, the life of man was greatly protracted, and yet of him who lived within thirty-one years of a thousand it is said he died; and the longest life is but as a moment when it is past. Though life is uncertain, precarious, and full of natural evils, yet it is a blessing in all its periods if devoted to the glory of God and the interest of the soul; for while it lasts we may more and more acquaint ou…

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The Church Fathers

Enoch begot Methuselah, and Methuselah begot Lamech, and Lamech begot Noah (whose name means "relief" in Hebrew and Syriac). Lamech prophesied about his son and said, "This one shall bring us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands and from the earth which the Lord cursed." His offerings … will be pleasing to God who, because of the sin of the earth's inhabitants, will destroy in the waters of wrath the buildings that we have made and the plants over which our hands have toiled.
— Ephrem the Syrian, COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 5.2.2

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Dictionary and topics

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,…
Noah — Rest, (Heb. Noah) the grandson of Methuselah (Gen. 5:25-29), who was for two hundred and fifty years contemporary with Adam, and the son of Lamech, who was about fifty years old at the time of Adam’s…
Lamech · and seventy-seven years — and seventy-seven years
Noah · 1. — 1.

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Genesis 5:28

Word by word — the Hebrew

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 5:28–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 5:26

Adam Clarke on Genesis 5:27

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Genesis 5:28

Word by word — the Hebrew

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 5:28–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 5:26

Adam Clarke on Genesis 5:27

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on Genesis 5:28

John Calvin on Genesis 5:24-28

Keil & Delitzsch on Genesis 5:3–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Genesis 5:28-29

Rashi on Genesis 5:28