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…

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