STRONGS NUMBER H4968


Word Summary
Methushelach: perhaps "man of the dart", a descendant of Seth
Original Word: מְתוּשֶׁלַח
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
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

מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַחproper name, masculine descendant of Seth (? man of the dart: more probably Babylonian; see conjectures in HomPSBA 1893, 243 ff.); — ׳מGenesis 5:22, 25, 26, 27 (P), 1 Chronicles 1:3, מְתוּשָׁ֑לַחGenesis 5:21 (P). ᵐ5Μαθουσαλα.

מַתְבֵּן‎ see תבן‎.

מתג‎ (√ of following; meaning unknown).