Word Study · Strong's H4968 · Hebrew
מְתוּשֶׁלַח
Methushelach
meth-oo-sheh'-lakh
Strong's 1890 spelling: Mᵉthûwshelach
“Methushelach, an antediluvian patriarch”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Methushelach, an antediluvian patriarch
Rendered in the KJV as
Methuselah.
- 6occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 4inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 6 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 4
- מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַח3
- מְתוּשֶׁ֗לַח1
- מְתוּשֶׁ֖לַח1
- מְתוּשָֽׁלַח׃1
How it is rendered · 1
- Methuselah6
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- proper noun (a name)6
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Where this word lives
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Genesis5 occurrences
- Genesis 5:21מְתוּשָֽׁלַח׃metushalachproper noun (a name)When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah.here: Methuselah
- Genesis 5:22מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַחmetushelachproper noun (a name)And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.here: Methuselah
- Genesis 5:25מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַחmetushelachproper noun (a name)When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.here: Methuselah
- Genesis 5:26מְתוּשֶׁ֗לַחmetushelachproper noun (a name)And after he had become the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.here: Methuselah
- Genesis 5:27מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַחmetushelachproper noun (a name)So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.here: Methuselah