1 Chronicles 1:3

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

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מְתוּשֶׁ֖לַח

Mᵉthûwshelach

H4968

“Methuselah”

Noun, Proper

Appears 6× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 5:21

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4962 and H7973

TWOT: None

Methuselah = "man of the dart" - son of Enoch, 6th in descent from Seth, and father of Lamech

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

3: words
3: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is מְתוּשֶׁ֖לַח Methuselah H4968 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מְתוּשֶׁ֖לַח Methuselah H4968 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 3 words from the Hebrew and 3 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 3 Hebrew tokens and 3 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 1:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Jude 1:14 About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
Genesis 5:21–31 Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah.
Luke 3:36–37 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
Hebrews 11:5 By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn't see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 1:3 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

חֲנ֥וֹךְ מְתוּשֶׁ֖לַח לָֽמֶךְ

Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 1:3 Septuagint · lemma form

ενωχ μαθουσαλα λαμεχ

Enoch, Mathusala, Lamech,

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 1:3 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

3. Henoch] “Enoch,” the spelling given in Gen. (A.V. and R.V.) is less correct. In 1Ch_1:33 the R.V. gives the still better form “Hanoch,” but it does not venture to alter the form of the name of the famous Enoch (Gen_5:21).

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 3 words (3 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mᵉthûwshelach (“Methuselah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Mᵉthûwshelach carries the sense “Methuselah.” How does it shape the verse?
How does Genesis 5:21, which shares the word «Methuselah», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?

Things to notice

This verse counts 3 Hebrew ↔ 3 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
3 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 3 words in this verse.