King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H4968
Transliteration: Methushelach
Phonetic Spelling: (meth-oo-sheh'-lakh)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: perhaps "man of the dart", a descendant of Seth
Meaning: Methuselah -- perhaps "man of the dart", a descendant of Seth
Word Summary
Methushelach: perhaps "man of the dart", a descendant of Seth
Original Word: מְתוּשֶׁלַחTransliteration: Methushelach
Phonetic Spelling: (meth-oo-sheh'-lakh)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: perhaps "man of the dart", a descendant of Seth
Meaning: Methuselah -- perhaps "man of the dart", a descendant of Seth
Strong's Concordance
Methuselah From math and shelach; man of a dart; Methushelach, an antediluvian patriarch -- Methuselah.
see HEBREW math
see HEBREW shelach
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H4968. Methushelach
מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַח proper name, masculine descendant of Seth (? man of the dart: more probably Babylonian; see conjectures in HomPSBA 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).