Strong H4968מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַח
Methuselah
- Transliteration
- methûshelach
- Pronunciation
- meth-oo-sheh'-lakh
- Morphology
- Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person
Definition
Meaning of the name
Methuselah = "man of the dart"
Detailed definition
In the biblical story
Methuselah
The oldest person mentioned in the Bible.
Methuselah, the son of Enoch, was the oldest person mentioned in the Bible, living 969 years (Gen.5.21,22,25,26,27; 1Ch.1.3; Luk.3.37).
In the Bible
Strong H4968 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- methuselah6
First verses
- Genesis 5:21And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
- 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,