Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #4968 - מְתוּשֶׁלַח Methushelach (perhaps "man of the dart")

Original Word:	מְתוּשֶׁלַח
Transliteration:	Methushelach
Definition:	perhaps "man of the dart", a descendant of Seth
Part of Speech:	Proper Name Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(meth-oo-sheh'-lakh)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Methuselah

From math and shelach; man of a dart; Methushelach, an antediluvian patriarch -- Methuselah.

see HEBREW math

see HEBREW shelach

Englishman's Concordance

Methuselah=“man of the dart”
1) son of Enoch, 6th in descent from Seth, and father of Lamech
Part of Speech: noun proper masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H4962 and H7973

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַחproper name, masculinedescendant of Seth (? man of the dart: more probably Babylonian; see conjectures in Hom^{PSBA 1893, 243 ff.}); — ׳מGenesis 5:22,25,26,27 (P), 1 Chronicles 1:3, מְתוּשָׁ֑לַחGenesis 5:21 (P). ᵐ5Μαθουσαλα.

מַתְבֵּן see תבן.

מתג (√ of following; meaning unknown).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 4968. מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַח (Methushelach) — 6 Occurrences

Genesis 5:21
HEB:וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת־ מְתוּשָֽׁלַח׃
NAS: and became the father of Methuselah.
KJV: years, and begat Methuselah:
INT: years and became of Methuselah

Genesis 5:22
HEB:הוֹלִיד֣וֹ אֶת־ מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַח שְׁלֹ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת
NAS: the father of Methuselah, and he had
KJV: he begat Methuselah three
INT: after became of Methuselah three hundred

Genesis 5:25
HEB: וַיְחִ֣י מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַח שֶׁ֧בַע וּשְׁמֹנִ֛ים
NAS:Methuselah lived one hundred
KJV:And Methuselah lived an hundred
INT: lived Methuselah and seven and eighty-seven

Genesis 5:26
HEB: וַֽיְחִ֣י מְתוּשֶׁ֗לַח אַֽחֲרֵי֙ הוֹלִיד֣וֹ
NAS:Then Methuselah lived seven
KJV:And Methuselah lived after
INT: lived Methuselah after became

Genesis 5:27
HEB:כָּל־ יְמֵ֣י מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַח תֵּ֤שַׁע וְשִׁשִּׁים֙
NAS: the days of Methuselah were nine
KJV: And all the days of Methuselah were nine
INT: all the days of Methuselah were nine sixty

1 Chronicles 1:3
HEB: חֲנ֥וֹךְ מְתוּשֶׁ֖לַח לָֽמֶךְ׃
NAS: Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
KJV: Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
INT: Enoch Methuselah Lamech

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