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Methuselah (US: / m ə ˈ θ uː z ˌ l ɑː /; Hebrew: מְתוּשֶׁלַח Məṯūšélaḥ, in pausa מְתוּשָׁלַח Məṯūšālaḥ, "His death shall send" or "Man of the Javelin" or "Death of Sword"; [1] Greek: Μαθουσάλας Mathousalas) [2] was a biblical patriarch and a figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
The Judean date palm at Ketura, Israel, nicknamed Methuselah. The Judean date palm is a date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) grown in Judea.It is not clear whether there was ever a single distinct Judean cultivar, but dates grown in the region have had distinctive reputations for thousands of years, and the date palm was anciently regarded as a symbol of the region and its fertility.
Saleh or Saaleh (Arabic: صَالَح ) [ Arabic form of the Hebrew Shelah, Selah or Methuselah ( Hebrew: שֶׁלַח ) [1]] is a semitic masculine name derivative from the Arabic language which means "righteous" or "pious". [2]
In Genesis 5:12-25, Lamech was a son of Methuselah, who was a grandson of Jared, who was a grandson of Kenan descended from Adam. [ 3 ] Genesis 5:28–31 records that Lamech was 182 [ 4 ] (according to the Masoretic Text ; 188 according to the Septuagint [ 5 ] ) years old at the birth of Noah and lived for another 595 [ 5 ] years, attaining an ...
Enoch (/ ˈ iː n ə k / ⓘ) [note 1] is a biblical figure and patriarch prior to Noah's flood, and the son of Jared and father of Methuselah. He was of the Antediluvian period in the Hebrew Bible. The text of the Book of Genesis says Enoch lived 365 years before he was taken by God.
The present-day Greek Orthodox Septuagint text still offers the Lucianic numbers for Methuselah, [68] which undoubtedly are the numbers as found in the original Septuagint text, most likely based on the Hebrew original that was used for the translation. This opens the possibility that these were the original numbers in the Hebrew tradition also ...
Judging by the number of copies found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Book of Enoch was widely read during the Second Temple period.Today, the Ethiopic Beta Israel community of Haymanot Jews is the only Jewish group that accepts the Book of Enoch as canonical and still preserves it in its liturgical language of Geʽez, where it plays a central role in worship. [6]
Depiction of Irad in the Nuremberg Chronicle. Irad (עִירָד , Irad) is a name in Hebrew.In the Book of Genesis, the grandson of Cain is Irad.. Genesis 4:18, in a genealogical passage about the descendants of Cain, contains the only reference to Irad in the Bible: "To Enoch was born Irad; and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael the father of Methushael, and Methushael the ...