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# methuselah

«methuselah» in Mova's school dictionary: **a man in the Book of Genesis who is said to have lived…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (Methuselah; a methuselah, methuselahs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (Bible) Methuselah is a man in the Book of Genesis who is said to have lived 969 years, the oldest person in the Bible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/methuselah/#m1)

2) (informal) A methuselah is a very old person or thing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/methuselah/#m2)

3) A methuselah is also a very large wine bottle holding six litres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/methuselah/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Met in Bible lessons and in sayings: «as old as Methuselah» means extremely old. Also the name of a very old bristlecone pine tree in California.

### examples

- The Bible says Methuselah lived to be 969 years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/methuselah/#x1)
- Grandad jokes that he is as old as Methuselah. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/methuselah/#x2)
- Methuselah was the grandfather of Noah. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/methuselah/#x3)
- A pine tree called Methuselah is nearly 5,000 years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/methuselah/#x4)
- That old car is a real methuselah. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/methuselah/#x5)
- A methuselah holds as much as eight normal bottles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/methuselah/#x6)

### note

As a Bible name, capital M. Christians and Jews read the long ages in Genesis in different ways; some take them literally, many see them as symbolic. No real person today lives anywhere near that long.

### In the corpora

- [And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begot Methuselah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.137/)
- [And Enoch walked with God after he begot Methuselah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.138/)
- [And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begot Lamech.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.141/)
- [And Methuselah lived after he begot Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begot sons and daughters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.142/)
- [And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years; and he died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.143/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «methuselah» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/methuselah/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.