Lamar non è nella Bibbia — è francese per “lo stagno”

Lamar is not in the Bible. It comes from a French and English surname that began as a place name in Normandy, from the Old French la mare, “the pool.” It has no Hebrew meaning, and it is not a form of Lamech, the Bible name it most resembles. What does Lamar mean? Lamar means “the pool.” The surname came from a place in Normandy named for a pool, la mare in Old French, and Lamar was a surname in…