1. חניך ch^enôk — Chanok, “initiation, instruction.”
2. עירד ‛ı̂yrād, ‘Irad, “fleet as the w…

Lamech took unto him two wives. —Whether polygamy began with Lamech is uncertain, but it is in keeping with the insolent …

And Lamech took unto him two wives. We have here the origin of polygamy in a perverse and degenerate race, and the first author of it, a c…

And Lamech took unto him two wives
He was the first we read of that introduced polygamy, contrary to the first insti…

One of Cain's wicked descendants is the first recorded as having broken the law of marriage. Until now, one man had only one wife at a time; but La…