Word

מְתוּשֶׁלַח

Mᵉthûwshelach · H4968 · Hebrew · proper noun · 6 occurrences

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Person

Methuselahfirst named in Genesis 5:217 verses

Meanings

Methuselah

A man, son of Enoch, a descendant of Seth and the father of Lamech

Examples
Genesis 5:21 Now Enoch lived sixty-five years, and fathered Methuselah.
Genesis 5:22 Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he fathered Methuselah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:25 Now Methuselah lived 187 years, and fathered Lamech.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

חָיָהto be alive, to become alive, to live 2

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

יָלַדto bear 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יוֹםday, time 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: מְתוּשֶׁלַח, "Methuselah," names the son of Enoch and grandfather of Noah in the genealogy of Genesis 5:21-27, famed for his exceptionally long lifespan, functioning as a personal name.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4968. Methushelach מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַח proper name, masculine descendant of Seth (? man of the…

H4968. Methushelach
מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַח proper name, masculine descendant of Seth (? man of the dart: more probably Babylonian; see conjectures in HomPSBA 1893, 243 ff.); — ׳מ Gen 5:22, Gen 5:25, Gen 5:26, Gen 5:27 (P), 1Ch 1:3, מְתוּשָׁ֑לַח Gen 5:21 (P). ᵐ5 Μαθουσαλα.
מַתְבֵּן see תבן.
מתג (√ of following; meaning unknown).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People6 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0