מְתוּשֶׁלַח
metushelach · Methuselah
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4968 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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metushelach (מְתוּשֶׁלַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Methuselah”.
Son of Enoch; the oldest person mentioned in the Bible (969 years).
How to say it
me·tu·she·lach
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Related words
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 5:21
And Enoch lived sixty-five years and fathered Methuselah.
- Genesis 5:22
And Enoch walked with Elohim after he fathered Methuselah three hundred years and fathered sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:25
And Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years and fathered Lamech.
- Genesis 5:26
And Methuselah lived after he fathered Lamech seven hundred and eighty-two years and fathered sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:27
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years and he died.
- 1 Chronicles 1:3
Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,