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In Genesis 5 we find a genealogy from Adam to Noah.
1. Adam means ‘man’ in English.
2. Seth is next in line after Adam. Seth’s name means ‘set’, ‘placed’ and ‘appointed’. You will find a reference to this in Gen 4:25, where Eve says God has appointed her another son in place of Abel who had been killed by Cain.
3. After this we find Enosh which means ‘mortal’.
4. Next we have Kenan which means ’sorrow’.
5. Next we have Mahalalel. The first portion ‘mahalal’ means ‘blessed’ or ‘praise’, and ‘El’ is the name for God. (When you see ‘El’ in any name it has God’s name built into it, like Daniel.) So Mahalalel means ‘the blessed God’.
6. Next we have Jared which means ’shall come down’.
7. After this we have the prophet Enoch. Enoch means ‘teaching’, ‘commencement’ or ‘anointed’. Enoch was righteous man and a prophet who was taken up by the Lord. His story is one of salvation and his most important prophecy was in the name he gave his son Methuselah.
8. Methuselah means ‘his death shall send’. Methuselah’s name was a prophecy for the day of his death, just before the Great Flood. He died in the year of the flood. Methuselah has the longest life span recorded in Scripture. God gave the world 969 years to turn from sin and still they refused.
9. Next we have Lamech, the root of his name means ‘despairing’ and ‘taste’.
10. Last but not least, we have Noah. His name means ‘comfort’ and ‘rest’.
The message in these names:
Man (is) appointed mortal sorrow; (but) the Blessed God shall
come down, his teaching that his death shall send (the) taste (of) rest and comfort.
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