מְתוּשֶׁלַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4968

Methuselah — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

Methuselah tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַח: n.pr.m. tree →

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.

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)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Methuselah (5); of Methuselah (1).

In the verses

1 Chronicles 1:3 · tree →

חֲנ֥וֹךְ מְתוּשֶׁ֖לַח לָֽמֶךְ׃

Word for word: Enoch Methuselah Lamech

JPS 1917: Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech;

Genesis 5:21 · tree →

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.

On Mova

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Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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