Metushelach מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַח

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Metushelach
מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַח
Transliterationmetushelach
Strong's numberH4968
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a man
GlossMethuselah
Occurrences6 in 6 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (5)

Metushelach (Hebrew מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַח, Strong's H4968) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Methuselah”. It occurs 6 times.

Definition

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 the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVmethuselah (6)
BSBmethuselah (6)

Verses

Every verse with Metushelach, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

1 Chronicles

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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