Methuselah

Methuselah

See also: methuselah

English

Etymology

From Hebrew מְתוּשֶׁלַח‎ (M'tušelaḥ), also spelled מְתוּשָׁלַח‎ (M'tušalaḥ).

Proper noun

Methuselah

1. The oldest person whose age is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, having reportedly lived 969 years.
2. (planets) A planet in PSR B1620-26 star system, Messier 4 globular cluster, Milky Way Galaxy, Scorpius constellation; the oldest planet discovered at the time of discovery in 2003; a circumbinary planet orbiting a pulsar (“PSR B1620-26 A”) and white dwarf (“WD B1620-26 B”).

   Synonyms: Planet Methuselah, Methuselah Planet, Genesis, Planet Genesis, Genesis Planet, PSR B1620-26 b, WD B1620-26 b, ** B1620-26 b, B1620-26b, PSR B1620-26 c, WD B1620-26 c, ** B1620-26 c, B1620-26c

Quotations

(Biblical character):

• 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 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:

Translations

Biblical character

Arabic: مَتُوشَلَخ‎ m (matūšalaḵ) Asturian: Matusalén m Basque: Matusalen Bikol Central: Matusalen Bulgarian: Матусал m (Matusal) Catalan: Matusalem (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 瑪土撒拉／玛土撒拉 (Mǎtǔsǎlā) Czech: Metuzalém m Esperanto: Metuŝelaĥ Finnish: Metusalem, Metuselah French: Mathusalem (fr) m Galician: Metuxalén m German: Methusalem (de) m Greek: Μαθουσάλας (el) m (Mathousálas) Ancient Greek: Μαθουσάλας (Mathousálas) Ancient: Μαθουσάλα m (Mathousála) Hebrew: מְתוּשֶׁלַח‎ m (Məṯūšélaḥ) Hungarian: Matuzsálem (hu) Indonesian: Metusalah Italian: Matusalemme m Japanese: メトシェラ (Metoshera) Kashubian: Metuszelach m Korean: 므두셀라 (Meudusella) Latin: Mathusael m Macedonian: Матусал m (Matusal), Метуза́лем m (Metuzálem) Maori: Matutaera Norwegian: Bokmål: Metusalem m, Metusjalah m Nynorsk: Metusalem m, Metusjalah m Occitan: Matusalèm m Old English: Mathusal m Persian: متوشالح‎ (fa) (matušalah) Polish: Matuzalem (pl) m, Metuszelach (pl) m Portuguese: Matusalém (pt) m Romanian: Metusala m, Matusalem m Russian: Мафусаи́л (ru) m (Mafusaíl) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Мету̀залем m Roman: Metùzalem (sh) m Spanish: Matusalén (es) m, Mathusalam m (obsolete) Tibetan: མེ་ཐུ་ཟི་ལཱ། (me thu zi lā) Ukrainian: Мафусаї́л m (Mafusajíl) Walloon: Matîssalé (wa) m Welsh: Methwsela m, Methusela m Yiddish: מתושלח‎ m (mesushelekh) Yoruba: Mẹ̀túsélà

Further reading

• PSR B1620−26 b on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

Methuselah (plural Methuselahs)

1. (by extension) Any person or thing that has lived to a very old age.
2. A large wine bottle with the capacity of about 6 liters, equivalent to 8 standard bottles.

Translations

person or thing that has lived to a very old age

Hungarian: matuzsálem Portuguese: matusalém (pt) m