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Methuselah
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methuselah
English
PSR B1620−26 b
Etymology
From en hbo מְתוּשֶׁלַח Məṯûšelaḥ, also spelled he מְתוּשָׁלַח Məṯûšālaḥ. The planet's name stems from the fact that, at the time of its discovery in 2003, it was the oldest known planet.
Pronunciation
en
Proper noun
The oldest person whose age is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, having reportedly lived 969 years.
Genesis 5 25-26 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
en Exoplanets en astronomy en planet star system:suf/the PSR B1620-26 globular cluster:suf/Messier 4 galaxy/Milky Way Galaxy constellation:suf/Scorpius; a circumbinary planet, officially named PSR B1620-26 b, orbiting a en pulsar PSR B1620-26 A and en white dwarf WD B1620-26 B.
en Planet Methuselah Methuselah Planet Genesis Planet Genesis Genesis Planet
Derived terms
en Methuselaic Methuselan old as Methuselah
Translations
Biblical character
Arabic: ar مَتُوشَلَخ m
Asturian: ast Matusalén m
Basque: eu Matusalen
Bikol:
Central Bikol: bcl Matusalen
Bulgarian: bg Матусал m
Catalan: ca Matusalem m
Cherokee: chr ᎻᏚᏏᎳ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 瑪土撒拉 Mǎtǔsǎlā
Czech: cs Metuzalém m
Esperanto: eo Metuŝelaĥ
Finnish: fi Metusalem, fi Metuselah
French: fr Mathusalem m
Galician: gl Metuxalén m
German: de Methusalem m
Greek: el Μαθουσάλας m
Ancient Greek: grc Μαθουσάλα m
Ancient Greek: grc Μαθουσάλας
Gujarati: gu મથૂશેલાહ m
Hebrew: he מְתוּשֶׁלַח m Məṯūšélaḥ
Hindi: hi मतूशेलह m
Hungarian: hu Matuzsálem
Indonesian: id Metusalah
Italian: it Matusalemme m
Japanese: ja メトシェラ Metoshera
Kashubian: csb Metuszelach m
Korean: ko ^므두셀라
Latin: la Mathusael m
Macedonian: mk Матусал m, mk Метуза́лем m
Māori: mi Matutaera
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Metusalem m, nb Metusjalah m
Nynorsk: nn Metusalem m, nn Metusjalah m
Occitan: oc Matusalèm m
Old English: ang Matusael m
Persian: fa متوشالح matušâlah
Polish: pl Matuzalem m, pl Metuszelach m
Portuguese: pt Matusalém m
Romanian: ro Metusala m, ro Matusalem m
Russian: ru Мафусаи́л m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Мету̀залем m
Latin: sh Metùzalem m
Spanish: es Matusalén m, es Mathusalam m obsolete
Tibetan: bo མེ་ཐུ་ཟི་ལཱ།
Ukrainian: uk Мафусаї́л m
Walloon: wa Matîssalé m
Welsh: cy Methwsela m, cy Methusela m
Yiddish: yi מתושלח mesushelekh m
Yoruba: yo Mẹ̀túsélà
Noun
en by extension Any person or thing that has lived to a very old age.
en methuselah large wine bottle.
Translations
person or thing that has lived to a very old age
Bulgarian: bg
Hungarian: hu matuzsálem
Portuguese: pt matusalém m
en eponyms
en Biblical characters Wine bottles