People on this forum argue that the Trinity is pagan, not scriptural, etc. etc. but once I was driving home listening to Christian radio. It happened to be Chuck Missler of Koinonia House he said something that sounded so far out when I got home I had to immediately check it out . I cant remember his exact title but it was something like The Gospel summarized in the 5th chapter of Genesis.
In Gen 5:1 we are told the meaning of Adams name and in Gen 4:25 the meaning of Seths name. The meaning of Noah's name is given in 5:29. But what are the meanings of the names in between and is there any significance to those names?
Gen 5:1 This is the written account of Adam's line. When YHWH created man, he made him in the likeness of YHWH. 2 He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them "man". 3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son. . . and he named him Seth.
Gen 4:25 Adam lay with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, "God has appointed me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him."
Gen 5:6 Seth . . .became the father of Enosh.
9 Enosh . . .became the father of Kenan.
12 Kenan . . .became the father of Mahalaleel.
15 Mahalaleel . . .became the father of Jared.
18 Jared. . .became the father of Enoch.
21 Enoch . . .became the father of Methuselah.
25 Methuselah . . .became the father of Lamech.
28 Lamech . . .had a son.
29 He named him Noah and said, "He will comfort us . . . ."
Here are the meanings of those names taken from Strongs Concordance.
#0582 fwna 'enowsh en-oshe' from 0605; TWOT - 136a; n m AV - man 520, certain 10, husbands 3, some 3, merchantmen 2, persons 2, misc 24; 564 1) man, mortal man, person, mankind
#07015 hnyq qiynah kee-naw' from 06969; TWOT - 2018a; n f AV - lamentation 18; 18 1) lamentation, dirge, elegy
#04111 lallhm Mahalal'el mah-hal-al-ale' from 04110 and 0410, Greek 3121 Malelehl;; n pr m AV - Mahalaleel 7; 7 Mahalaleel = "praise of God" 1) son of Cainan and the 4th in descent from Adam in the line of Seth
#03381 dry yarad yaw-rad' a primitive root; TWOT - 909; v AV - (come, go, etc) down 340, descend 18, variant 2, fell 2, let 1, abundantly 1, down by 1, indeed 1, put off 1, light off 1, out 1, sank 1, subdued 1, take 1; 380 1) to go down, descend, decline, march down, sink down
#02596 $nx chanak khaw-nak' a primitive root; TWOT- 693; v AV - dedicate 4, train up 1; 5 1) to train, dedicate, inaugurate
# 04191 twm muwth mooth a primitive root; TWOT - 1169; v AV - die 424, dead 130, slay 100, death 83, surely 50, kill 31, dead man 3, dead body 2, in no wise 2, misc 10; 835 1) to die, kill, have one executed
#07971 xlf shalach shaw-lakh' a primitive root; TWOT - 2394; v AV - send 566, go 73, (send, put,...) forth 54, send away 48, lay 14, send out 12, put 10, put away 7, cast out 7, stretch out 5, cast 5, set 5, put out 4, depart 4, soweth 3, loose 3, misc 22; 847
l , preposition to, Brown-Driver-Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, 1980, p. 510.
#04347 hkm makkah mak-kaw' or (masc.) hkm makkeh muk-keh' from 05221; TWOT - 1364d; n f p AV - wound 14, slaughter 14, plague 11, beaten 1, stripes 2, stroke 2, blow 1, smote 1, sores 1, wounded 1; 48
05146 xn Noach no-akh
the same as 05118, Greek 3575 Nwe; TWOT - 1323b; n pr m
AV - Noah 46; 46
Noah = "rest"
son of Lamech, father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth; builder of the ark which saved his family from the destruction of the world which God sent on the world by the flood; became the new seminal head of mankind because his family were the only survivors of the flood
Adam - Man(kind)
Seth - Appointed
Enosh - Mortal
Kenan - Sorrow (Lamentation)
Mahalaleel - The Blessed El/Praise of El
Jared - Shall Come Down
Enoch - Teaching
Methuselah - His death Shall Bring (send forth)
Lamech - to the Suffering wounded/stricken)
Noah - Comfort/Rest
Now put them all together.
Man(kind) (is) appointed mortal sorrow. (But) the Blessed God shall come down, teaching (that) His death shall bring to the suffering, comfort/rest.
Do you suppose that is merely coincidence?