Son of Enoch, and father of Lamech. He lived 969 years, a longer life than any other on record, and died within the year before the deluge, Ge 5:21-22.

man of the dart, the son of Enoch, and grandfather of Noah. He was the oldest man of whom we have any record, dying at the age of nine hundred and sixty-nine years, in the year of the Flood (Ge 5:21-27; 1Ch 1:3).

("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 (Ge 5:21-27); faith is not always hereditary.

A Sethite, the father of Lamech, Ge 5:21 ff. (Priestly Narrative), 1Ch 1:3; Lu 3:37 = Methushael in Jahwist's genealogy, Lu 4:18. The name is interpreted by Holzinger as 'man of the javelin'

Methu'selah

Son of Enoch, and the seventh from Adam: he lived 969 years, longer than any other person, and died in the year of the flood. Ge 5:21-27; 1Ch 1:3. He is called MATHUSALA in Lu 3:37.

Methu'selah

(man of the dart), the son of Enoch, sixth in descent from Seth, and father of Lamech.

Ge 5:25-27

METHUSELAH, the son of Enoch, and father of Lamech, Ge 5:21. He was born A.M. 687 and died A.M. 1656, being the very year of the deluge, at the age of nine hundred and sixty-nine, the greatest age to which any mortal man ever attained.