Strong's Hebrew: 4967. מְת֫וּשָׁאֵל (Methushael) -- "man of God," a descendant of Cain

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Methushael: "man of God," a descendant of Cain

Original Word: מְת֫וּשָׁאֵל
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: Methushael
Phonetic Spelling: (meth-oo-shaw-ale')
Short Definition: Methushael

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from math and el
Definition
"man of God," a desc. of Cain
NASB Translation
Methushael (2).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מְתוּשָׁאֵל proper name, masculine descendant of Cain (Babylonian form., mutu-ša-ili 'man of God,' Len^{Orig. ed. 2, i. 262 f. Eng. Tr. 268}); — Genesis 4:18 (twice in verse) (J), ᵐ5 Μαθουσαλα (i.e.מְתוּשֶׁלַח? so Di; otherwise Bu^{Urgesch. 125 f.})

Strong's

Methusael

From math and 'el, with the relative interposed; man who (is) of God; Methusael, an antediluvian patriarch -- Methusael.

see HEBREW math

see HEBREW 'el