Μαθουσάλα
Methuselah
Thayer's lists 2 entries for ‘Methuselah’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Every verse where G3103 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
Μαθουσαλα (Mathousála) is a Greek name most often rendered “Methuselah.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 1 verse. Luke dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. A true hapax — its single appearance is Luke 3:37. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3103 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Gospels 1 verse · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Was the son of mathusala 1×
- American Standard Version: Son of methuselah 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Methuselah 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Methuselah 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3103 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3103 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3103 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3103 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Methuselah = "when he dies, there shall be an emission"
- the son of Enoch, grandfather of Noah, lived longer than anyone else to 969 years
Word origin
Derived from מתושלח (Mᵉthûwshelach) (H4968) — Methuselah.
Of hebrew origin [ H4968 ]; Mathusala (that is methushelach ) an antediluvian : - Mathusala.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Methuselah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
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 (Gen. 5:21-27; 1 Chr. 1:3).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(man of the dart), the son of Enoch, sixth in descent from Seth, and father of Lamech. (Genesis 5:25-27)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word Μαθουσαλα appears 8 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 7 verses in 2 books.
- 8
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 7
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 4:18 μαθουσαλα
- 1 Chronicles 1:3 μαθουσαλα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3103) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 4:18 μαθουσαλα To Enoch was born Irad. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech.
- Genesis 5:21 μαθουσαλα Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah.
- Genesis 5:22 μαθουσαλα Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:25 μαθουσαλα Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.
- Genesis 5:26 μαθουσαλα Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:27 μαθουσαλα All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
- 1 Chronicles 1:3 μαθουσαλα Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3103) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
