מְתוּשֶׁלַח

metushelach · Methuselah

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4968 · appears 6 times in the Bible

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What it means

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,