# Lamar Is Not in the Bible — It Is French for “the Pool”

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Published: 2025-01-09
Updated: 2026-11-07

Lamar is not in the Bible. It is a French and English surname that began as a place in Normandy named for a pool: *la mare*, "the pool," in Old French. It has no Hebrew meaning, and it is not a form of Lamech, the Bible name it most resembles.

Lamech is a different name with its own story, and one of the men who bore it shows what a name can carry. When his son was born, he named him Noah and spoke a hope over him, that the boy would bring comfort to people worn out by work on hard ground. Whatever language a name comes from, we give it to a child the same way, with a hope.

## 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 France and England long before it was a first name. In the second half of the twentieth century it became a popular first name among African Americans.

A pool is a small thing, but in dry country it is life, and the Bible counts it among God's gifts. Psalm 107 says of him, "He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs" (Psalm 107:35).

## Is Lamar in the Bible?

No. Lamar is French, and no form of it occurs anywhere in Scripture. For the same reason it has no meaning in Hebrew.

## Lamar and Lamech

The Bible name that sounds most like Lamar is Lamech, but the two are unrelated. Lamech is Hebrew, and its meaning is uncertain; it may come from a word meaning "to make low." Genesis has two men of that name.

The first Lamech is a descendant of Cain. He takes two wives, Adah and Zillah, and boasts to them that he has killed a young man for wounding him: "If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times" (Genesis 4:24).

The second Lamech belongs to the line of Seth and is the father of [Noah](https://christianpure.com/learn/noah-birth-bible-study/). When his son is born, he names him and says, "He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed" (Genesis 5:29).

## Related reading

- [Is Your Name in the Bible? A Directory of 231 Names](https://christianpure.com/learn/biblical-name-meanings/)
- [When and Where Was Noah Born?](https://christianpure.com/learn/noah-birth-bible-study/)

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