H4968: מְתוּשֶׁלַח
Mᵉthûwshelach · pronounced meth-oo-sheh'-lakh · “Methuselah”
Definition
Methushelach, an antediluvian patriarch
KJV translates it as: Methuselah.
Word origin: from H4962 (מַת) and H7973 (שֶׁלַח); man of a dart;
Extended 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
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
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4968 is translated
- methuselah ×6
Bible verses with H4968 (Mᵉthûwshelach)
Mᵉthûwshelach appears in 6 verses.
- Genesis 5:21
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
- Genesis 5:22
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:25
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
- Genesis 5:26
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Genesis 5:27
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
- 1 Chronicles 1:3
Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,