Methushelach means “Methuselah” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4968 — sphagion (“slain beast”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4968 מְתוּשֶׁלַח (Mthuwshelach) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Mthuwshelach (meth-oo-sheh'-lakh) n/p. 1. man of a dart 2. Methushelach, an antediluvian patriarch It has 6 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include methuselah. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
Mthuwshelach (meth-oo-sheh'-lakh) n/p. 1. man of a dart 2. Methushelach, an antediluvian patriarch [from H4962 and H7973] KJV: Methuselah. Root(s): H4962, H7973
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Methuselah
Usage: A man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.5.21; son of: Enoch (H2585H); father of: Lamech (H3929H) Also named: Mathousala (Μαθουσάλα "Methuselah" G3103) § Methuselah = "man of the dart" son of Enoch, 6th in descent from Seth, and father of Lamech
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Mthuwshelach, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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6 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.
First 6 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4968.
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4968, grouped by book.
Methushelach (Strong's H4968) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Methuselah". Mthuwshelach (meth-oo-sheh'-lakh) n/p. 1. man of a dart 2. Methushelach, an antediluvian patriarch
This page currently indexes 6 linked usages for Strong's H4968 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4968 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as methuselah. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.