Methuselah
מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַחStrong’s H4968metushelach (me-tu-she-lach)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Metushelach is the Hebrew word usually translated “methuselah”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:”
Meaning
- A man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.5.21
How it's translated
- methuselah 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 5
- 1 Chronicles 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 5:22And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:25And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
- Genesis 5:26And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:27And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
- 1 Chronicles 1:3Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
Hebrew dictionary
מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַח metushelach · Methuselah
A man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.5.21; son of: Enoch (H2585H); father of: Lamech (H3929H) Also named: Mathousala (Μαθουσάλα "Methuselah" G3103) § Methuselah = "man of the dart" son of Enoch, 6th in descent from Seth, and father of Lamech
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.