Methuselah — the meaning of the Hebrew name מְתוּשֶׁלַח

מְתוּשֶׁלַח

Mᵉthûwshelach · pronounced meth-oo-sheh'-lakh · Strong's H4968 · a man

Methuselah means man of a dart.

Built from

מַת math (from, H4962) — properly, an adult (as of full length) open in the lexicon ›

שֶׁלַח shelach (and, H7973) — a missile of attack, i.e. spear open in the lexicon ›

from H4962 and H7973; man of a dart; Methushelach, an antediluvian patriarch.

Gen 5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: (KJV)

6 occurrences in 6 verses — Genesis, 1 Chronicles

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Definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); occurrences from the Westminster Leningrad Codex via Hebrew Explorer's interlinear.

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