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# מְתוּשָׁאֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4967

**Methusael** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Methusael [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4967/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְתוּשָׁאֵל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4967/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. descendant of Cain (Bab. form., mutu-ša-ili ‘man of God,’ LenOrig. ed. 2, i. 262f. Eng. Tr. 268);—Gn 4:18(×2) (J), 𝔊 Μαθουσαλα (i.e. מְתוּשֶׁלַח? so Di; otherwise BuUrgesch. 125 f.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Methushael (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 4:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.18/#tree)

וַיִּוָּלֵ֤ד לַֽחֲנוֹךְ֙ אֶת־עִירָ֔ד וְעִירָ֕ד יָלַ֖ד אֶת־מְחֽוּיָאֵ֑ל וּמְחִיּיָאֵ֗ל יָלַד֙ אֶת־מְת֣וּשָׁאֵ֔ל וּמְתוּשָׁאֵ֖ל יָלַ֥ד אֶת־לָֽמֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and he.was.born to Enoch (et) Irad and Irad he.fathered (et) Mehujael and Mehujael he.fathered (et) Methushael and Methushael he.fathered (et) Lamech

*JPS 1917:* And unto Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehujael; and Mehujael begot Methushael; and Methushael begot Lamech.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4967.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4967/): 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).