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== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70521" /> == | == People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70521" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> '''Methuselah''' (me-thû'se-lah), man of dart, or he dies and it is sent—namely, the flood. The son of Enoch, and, according to [[Hebrew]] chronology, 969 years old when he died, in the first year of the flood. The longest-lived man was the son of the saintliest of his time. Genesis 5:27; 1 Chronicles 1:3. He lived 243 years with [[Adam]] and 600 years with Noah. The history of the fall and of the world before the flood was carried thus through only one person to Noah. </p> | ||
== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36621" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36621" /> == | ||
<p> ("he dies and it (the flood) is sent".) A name given prophetically by Enoch, or given after the event. Phoenician inscriptions use | <p> ("he dies and it (the flood) is sent".) A name given prophetically by Enoch, or given after the event. Phoenician inscriptions use methu or betha ("a man"). The man who lived the longest - 969 years. He died in the year of the flood, possibly by it. It is suggestive that death enters into the name of the longest liver. No record of godliness is given, as in his father Enoch's case ( Genesis 5:21-27); faith is not always hereditary. </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_52772" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_52772" /> == | ||
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== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_74015" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_74015" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> '''Methu'selah.''' (man of the dart). The son of Enoch, sixth in descent from Seth, and father of Lamech. Genesis 5:25-27. </p> | ||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16601" /> == | == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16601" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_50864" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_50864" /> == | ||
<p> (Ieb. Methushe'lach, | <p> (Ieb. Methushe'lach, מְתוּשֵׁלִח, man of the dart; Sept. and N.T. Μαθουσάλα; Josephus, Μαθουσάλας, Ant. 1:3, 3 and 4; Vulg. [[Mathusala]] and Mathusale; Auth. Vers. "Mathusala," in Luke 3:37), the son of Enoch, and eighth of the Sethite antediluvian patriarchs (Genesis v. 21, 22, 25, 26, 27; 1 Chronicles 1:3). He was born (according to the Hebrews text) BC. 3484. When he had attained the age of 187 years, his son [[Lamech]] was born, after which he lived 782 years, and died (BC. 2516) only a few months before the flood, at the extreme age of 969; which, being the greatest term attained by any on record. has caused his name to become a proverb of long life. (See [[Longevity]]). </p> | ||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_6286" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_6286" /> == | ||
<p> ''''' mḗ ''''' - ''''' thū´sḗ ''''' - ''''' la ''''' , ''''' me ''''' - ''''' thū´se ''''' - ''''' la ''''' ( | <p> ''''' mḗ ''''' - ''''' thū´sḗ ''''' - ''''' la ''''' , ''''' me ''''' - ''''' thū´se ''''' - ''''' la ''''' ( מתוּשׁלח , <i> ''''' methūshelaḥ ''''' </i> , "man of the javelin"): A descendant of Seth, the son of Enoch, and father of Lamech ( Genesis 5:21 ff; 1 Chronicles 1:3; Luke 3:37 ). [[Methuselah]] is said to have lived 969 years; he is therefore the oldest of the patriarchs and the oldest man. It is doubtful whether these long years do not include the duration of a family or clan. </p> | ||
== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16117" /> == | == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16117" /> == | ||
