Luke 3:37

Greek (Tischendorf 8th ed.)

English Translation

the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,

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Highlights

3 hapax legomena — only here in the Greek New Testament
4 first appearances in the Greek New Testament

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Μαθουσαλὰ

Mathousála

G3103

“Methuselah”

Noun, Proper, indeclinable

Appears 1× in the Greek New Testament
First appears here

Full Thayer's Definition

Origin: of hebrew origin H4968

TDNT: None

Methuselah = "when he dies, there shall be an emission" 1. the son of Enoch, grandfather of Noah, lived longer than anyone else to 969 years

About this verse

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10: words
6: distinct lemmas
Gospels: section

Notable vocabulary

3 hapax legomena — words that appear only here in the entire Greek New Testament:

Μαθουσαλὰ Methuselah G3103
Ἰάρετ Jared G2391
Μελελεὴλ Mahalaleel G3121

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Greek New Testament here:

Μαθουσαλὰ Methuselah G3103
Ἐνὼχ Jared G1802
Ἰάρετ Jared G2391
Μελελεὴλ Mahalaleel G3121

Shared distinctive vocabulary

Καϊνὰμ Cainan G2536 occurs in 2 verses of the Greek New Testament. Also found in:

Luke 3:36

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse:

τοῦ the G3588 ×5

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Luke 3:37 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

1 Chronicles 1:1–3 Adam, Seth, Enosh,
Genesis 5:6–28 Seth lived one hundred five years, and became the father of Enosh.

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Commentary

Notes on Luke 3:37 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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John Gill's Exposition

Which was the son of Enos,.... Gen 5:9

which was the son of Seth, Gen 5:6

which was the son of Adam Gen 5:3

which was the son of God: not begotten, as all the rest were, by their immediate parents, but created by God, in a supernatural manner, out of the dust of the earth, and quickened with the breath of God: so Adam is, by the Jews (h) called, , "the son of God": though this may be understood of Jesus; the son of Joseph, of Heli, &c. and so on to this clause, "the son of God"; being so as a divine person, to whom the human nature was united, and on that account so called; see Luk 1:35 Thus, as Matthew gives us the regal line of Christ, showing him to be heir to the throne of his father David, Luke gives the natural line of Christ; and as Matthew traces his genealogy down from Abraham, in a descending line, to Joseph, the husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus, Luke traces it upwards, in an ascending line, from Mary by Joseph, even up to Adam; to whom the Messiah was first promised, and who was a type of the second Adam, from whom he descended, though not by ordinary generation; nay, even to God himself: Christ, according to his divine nature, was the only begotten of the Father; and as to his human nature, had a body prepared by him, and in the fulness of time was God manifest in the flesh.

(h) Sepher Cosri, orat. 2. Sig. 14. fol. 68. 1.

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Luke, in the Gospels, opens this verse with 10 words (6 distinct Greek lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mathousála (“Methuselah”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Methuselah” (Mathousála) shape what this verse is saying?
This verse holds 3 words here found nowhere else in the Greek New Testament. What might the rare words draw attention to?
4 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
Luke 3:36 shares the word «Cainan» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“the” occurs 5× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?

Things to notice

3 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Greek New Testament.
4 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
“the” occurs 5× in this single verse.
6 distinct Greek lemmas span 10 words in this verse.