Have you ever been reading your bible and come across one of those boring lists of names? Maybe next time you are reading you might consider that the Lord does not waste a single letter, it all has meaning.
Hebrew meanings are taken from Biblesoft’s New Exhaustive Strong’s Numbers and Concordance.
ADAM = Mankind
OT:120 ‘adam (aw-dawm’); from OT:119; ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind,
etc.):
SETH = Appointed To
OT:7896 shiyth (sheeth); a primitive root; to place (in a very wide application):KJV appoint
ENOS = Feeble, Frail, Mortality (#582 FROM #605)
OT:582 ‘enowsh (en-oshe’); from OT:605; properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified
OT:120);
OT:605 ‘anash (aw-nash’); a primitive root; to be frail, feeble
CAINAN = A Fixed Dwelling Place
OT:7064 qen (kane); contracted from OT:7077; a nest (as fixed)
MAHALALEEL = God Who Is Praised
OT:4111 Mahalal’el (mah-hal-al-ale’); from OT:4110 and OT:410; praise of God
JARED = Comes Down, Descend
OT:3382 Yered (yeh’-red); from OT:3381; a descent;
ENOCH = To Instruct, Train Up
OT:2596 chanak (khaw-nak’); a primitive root; properly, to narrow, figuratively, to initiate or discipline:
KJV – dedicate, train up.
METHUSELAH = A Man Sent Forth (#4968 FROM #4962, #7973)
OT:4968 Methuwshelach (meth-oo-sheh’-lakh); from OT:4962 and OT:7973; man of a dart;
OT:7973 shelach (sheh’-lakh); from OT:7971; a missile of attack,
LAMECH = To Be Beaten, Smitten, And Tortured
OT:3929 Lemek (leh’-mek); from #4347
OT:4347 makkah, a blow, by implication, a wound; figuratively, carnage, also beaten, slaughter, smote, X
sore, stripe, stroke, wound((-ed)).
NOAH = To Bring Rest, A Quiet Peace
OT:5146 Noach (no’-akh); the same as OT:5118; rest
OT:5118 nuwach (noo’-akh); or nowach (no’-akh); from OT:5117; quiet:
(Biblesoft’s New Exhaustive Strong’s Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew
Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.)
