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Methuselah

The son of Enoch, and father of Lamech, Gen. v, 21. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
  • Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • Historical Reference: concordance
  • Historical Reference: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
  • Historical Reference: Installed reference work

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
G3103, H4968
Hebrew
מְתוּשֶׁלַח · Mᵉthûwshelach
Greek
Μαθουσάλα · Mathousala

Strong’s and original-language information

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

Μαθουσάλα

G3103
Transliteration
Mathousala
Language
Greek
Part of speech
N:N-M-P
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

Methuselah, Mathusala

Lexicon definition

Μαθουσάλα (WH, -αλά), ὁ (Heb. מְתוּשֶׁלַח), Methuselah: Luk.3:37.† (AS)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

מְתוּשֶׁלַח

H4968
Transliteration
Mᵉthûwshelach
Pronunciation
meth-oo-sheh'-lakh
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
6

Glosses

Methuselah.

Lexicon definition

Methushelach, an antediluvian patriarch

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Methuselah

Man of the dart, the son of Enoch, and grandfather of Noah. He was the oldest man of whom we have any record, dying at the age of nine hundred and sixty-nine years, in the year of the Flood (Gen. 5:21-27; 1 Chr. 1:3).

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

METHUSELAH

the son of Enoch, and father of Lamech, Gen. v, 21. He was born A. M. 687, and died A. M. 1656, being the very year of the deluge, at the age of nine hundred and sixty-nine, the greatest age to which any mortal man ever attained.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Methuselah

Indexed occurrences: 7

Source: Strong's Concordance · View data sources

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