Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H4968
מְתוּשֶׁלַח
Methushelachmeth-oo-sheh'-lakh
Methuselah
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Mᵉthûwshelach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4968is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4968
Methushelach, an antediluvian patriarch
The King James renders it: Methuselah.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Methushelach is rendered "Methuselah". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Five of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 5:21When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah.
Genesis 5:21מְתוּשָֽׁלַח׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's six uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Methuselah6
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַח3
- מְתוּשֶׁ֗לַח1
- מְתוּשֶׁ֖לַח1
- מְתוּשָֽׁלַח׃1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)6HNpm
Genesis
five uses
When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah.
- מְתוּשָֽׁלַח׃metushalachproper noun (a name)tagged: Methuselah
And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
- מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַחmetushelachproper noun (a name)tagged: Methuselah
When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.
- מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַחmetushelachproper noun (a name)tagged: Methuselah
And after he had become the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.
- מְתוּשֶׁ֗לַחmetushelachproper noun (a name)tagged: Methuselah
So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.
- מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַחmetushelachproper noun (a name)tagged: Methuselah
1 Chronicles
one use
Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech.
- מְתוּשֶׁ֖לַחmetushelachproper noun (a name)tagged: Methuselah
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.