Adam | = |
Man | Hebrew 121 אדם 'âdâm aw-dawm' The same as H120; Adam, the name of the first man, also of a place in Palestine: - Adam. |
Seth | = |
appointed | Bullinger Companion Bible Page 9 Seth = appointed Hebrew 8352 שׁת shêth shayth From H7896; put, that is, substituted; Sheth, third son of Adam: - Seth, Sheth. Hebrew 7896 שׁית shı̂yth sheeth A primitive root; to place (in a very wide application): - apply, appoint, array, bring, consider, lay (up), let alone, X look, make, mark, put (on), + regard, set, shew, be stayed, X take. |
Enos | = |
mortal | Bullinger Companion Bible Page 10 Enos = frail, incurable Hebrew 583 אנושׁ 'ĕnôsh en-ohsh' The same as H582; Enosh, a son of Seth: - Enos. H582 אנושׁ 'ĕnôsh en-oshe' From H605; properly a mortal (and thus differeing from the more dignified H120); hence a man in general (singly or collectively). It is often unexpressed in the English Version, especially when used in apposition with another word: - another, X [blood-] thirsty, certain, chap [-man], divers, fellow, X in the flower of their age, husband, (certain, mortal) man, people, person, servant, some (X of them), + stranger, those, + their trade. It is often unexpressed in the Engl. version, especially when used in apposition with another word. Compare H376. |
Cainan | = |
possession |
Bullinger Companion Bible Page 10 Cainan = a possession |
Mahalaleel | = |
praise of El |
Hebrew 4111 מהללאל mahălal'êl mah-hal-al-ale' From H4110 and H410; praise of El; Mahalalel, the name of an antediluvian patriarch and of an Israelite: - Mahalaleel. |
Jared | = |
come down |
Hebrew 3382 ירד yered yeh'-red From H3381; a descent; Jered, the name of an antediluvian, and of an Israelite: - Jared. H3381 ירד yârad yaw-rad' A primitive root; to descend (literally to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively to fall); causatively to bring down (in all the above applications): - X abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come (-ing) down, fall (down), get down, go (-ing) down (-ward), hang down, X indeed, let down, light (down), put down (off), (cause to, let) run down, sink, subdue, take down. |
Enoch | = |
teaching |
Bullinger Companion Bible Page 10 Enoch = teaching or initiation Hebrew 2585 חנוך chănôk khan-oke' From H2596; initiated; Chanok, an antediluvian patriarch: - Enoch. H2596 חנך chânak khaw-nak' A primitive root; properly to narrow (compare H2614); figuratively to initiate or discipline: - dedicate, train up. |
Methuselah | = |
when he is dead it shall be
sent |
Bullinger Companion Bible Page 10 Methuselah = when he is dead it shall be sent, i.e. the Deluge |
Lamech | = |
powerful |
Bullinger Companion Bible Page 10 Lamech (powerful) Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon: lemek Lamech = "powerful" 1) the 5th lineal descendant from Cain, husband of Adah and Zillah, father of sons, Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-cain, and daughter, Naamah 2) father of Noah Part of Speech: noun proper masculine Relation: from an unused root of uncertain meaning http://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Lexicon.show/ID/H3929/Lemek.htm http://classic.net.bible.org/dictionary.php?word=lamech Some say that Lamech has a root word in Lament which does me sorrow. As of this time we have not found any such connection. |
Noah | = |
comfort rest | Hebrew 5146 נח nôach no'-akh The same as H5118; rest; Noach, the patriarch of the flood: - Noah. Zondervan's Pictorial Bible Dictionary Noah means comfort |