Biblical People

Methuselah (me-thuze-la), KJV of NT Mathusala (ma-thusa-la). [Heb. Methushelach; Gr. Mathousala, possibly “man of the javelin.”] An antediluvian patriarch of Seth's line. He was son of Enoch and the father of Lamech. His age of 969 years is greater than that recorded of any other man (Gen 5:21-27; Lk 3:37).

Horn, Siegfried H., Seventh-day Adventist Bible Dictionary, (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association) 1979.

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