Lexicon Methushelach: perhaps "man of the dart," a descendant of Seth Original Word: מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַחPart of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: Methushelach Phonetic Spelling: (meth-oo-sheh'-lakh) Short Definition: Methuselah NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originperhaps from math and shelachDefinitionperhaps "man of the dart," a desc. of Seth NASB TranslationMethuselah (6).
Brown-Driver-Briggs מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַח proper name, masculine descendant of Seth ( ? man of the dart: more probably Babylonian; see conjectures in Hom PSBA 1893, 243 ff.); — ׳מ Genesis 5:22,25,26,27 (P), 1 Chronicles 1:3, מְתוּשָׁ֑לַח Genesis 5:21 (P). ᵐ5 Μαθουσαλα. מַתְבֵּן see תבן. מתג (√ of following; meaning unknown).
Strong's Methuselah From math and shelach; man of a dart; Methushelach, an antediluvian patriarch -- Methuselah. see HEBREW math see HEBREW shelach |
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