methuselah – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Methuselah
n.
grandfather of Noah, man who is said to have lived 969 years (Biblical); very old person; very large bottle of wine (holds 6 liters)
Methuselah
Methuselah is the man reported to have lived the longest at the age of 969 in the
Hebrew Bible. Extra-biblical tradition maintains that he died on the 11th of
Cheshvan of the year 1656AM (
Anno Mundi, after Creation), seven days before the beginning of the
Great Flood. Methuselah was the son of
Enoch, the father of
Lamech, and the grandfather of
Noah.
Methuselah
Noun
1. (Old Testament) a patriarch (grandfather of Noah) who is said to have lived 969 years
(hypernym) patriarch
(classification) Old Testament
2. a man who is very old
(synonym) old man, greybeard, graybeard
(hypernym) oldster, old person, senior citizen, golden ager
(hyponym) codger, old codger
Methuselah
[Judaic] The oldest man mentioned in the Bible. It is said (Gen. v, 27) that he died at the age of 969.
Methuselah
Methuselah methushelah (Hebrew) A Biblical patriarch, son of Enoch and grandfather of Noah; his life-span was stated as 969 years. The patriarchs each represented a race or subrace, and the number of years, to which the necessary ciphers should be added, referred to the cycle of such a race. Each character likewise stood for a sign of the zodiac (IU 2:459-60). Further, Methuselah assisted Enoch in constructing an underground building with nine apartments, each one of which contained one of the nine names of deity -- a reference to the occult or mystical language of initiation, and of the buildings constructed for its formal rites.
