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title: מְתוּשֶׁלַח — Methuselah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְתוּשֶׁלַח (4968), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: Methuselah. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְתוּשֶׁלַח

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«מְתוּשֶׁלַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Methuselah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 6 times · **Key:** 4968 · **BDB:** מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַח

### Glosses

Methuselah (5); of.Methuselah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Methuselah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4968/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4968/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. descendant of Seth (? man of the dart: more prob. Bab.; see conj. in HomPSBA 1893, 243 ff.);—מ׳ Gn 5:22, 25, 26, 27 (P), 1 Ch 1:3, מְתוּשָׁ֑לַח Gn 5:21 (P). 𝔊 Μαθουσαλα.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְתוּשֶׁלַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4968/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 1:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.3/)

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חֲנ֥וֹךְ מְתוּשֶׁ֖לַח לָֽמֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* Enoch Methuselah Lamech

*JPS 1917:* Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech;

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[Genesis 5:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.5.21/)

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וַֽיְחִ֣י חֲנ֔וֹךְ חָמֵ֥שׁ וְשִׁשִּׁ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת־מְתוּשָֽׁלַח׃

*Word for word:* and he.lived Enoch five and sixty year\[s\] and he.fathered (et) Methuselah

*JPS 1917:* And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begot Methuselah.

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