And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
Lamech - Hebrew, Lemech, strong, powerful. This was a different person from the Lamech mentioned in Genesis 4:1-26, and lived probably a considerable time after him, although this latter circumstance cannot be fully ascertained from want of dates in the record of the Cainite patriarchs. But both Lamechs have this in common, that they are distinguished by a fragment of rude, artless poetry, ascribed to them respectively.