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noun · masculine

mathousala

GreekΜαθουσαλά (mathousala)

Strong’sG3103

Methuselah

stem mathousal-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

Methuselah

What it means

Μαθουσάλα (WH, -αλά), (Heb. מְתוּשֶׁלַח),

Methuselah: Lk 3:37.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3103 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmath-oo-sal'-ah

Mathusala (i.e. Methushelach), an antediluvian

Fromof Hebrew origin ();

King JamesMathusala.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativemathousalamathousala
object accusativemathousalamathousala
direct address vocativemathousalamathousala
of, belonging to genitivemathousalaΜαθουσαλὰmathousala
to, for dativemathousalamathousala

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
mathousalastem

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

mathousala“Methuselah”of, belonging togenitive singular

Luke 3:37“Methuselah”tou Mathousala tou Henōch tou Iaret tou Maleleēl tou Kainamthe son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan,