Gender Masculine
Scripts מְתוּשֶׁלַח (Ancient Hebrew)

It means “When he is dead he will be sent,” or “Man of the javelin” (or “man of the dart”). The etymology comes from the noun מת (mat), “man,” or מות (mut), “death,” and the verb שלח (shalah), to send or let go.
Methuselah was the son of Enoch and the father of Lamech (i.e., Noah’s grandfather, Genesis 5:25). He was the man who had the longest life of anyone in the Bible (969 years), dying in the year of the great flood.
Methuselah is also listed in the genealogy of Christ, mentioned in the Greek New Testament as Μαθουσαλα (Mathousala, Luke 3:37).

The Oldest Man

According to the book of Genesis 5:21-27, Methuselah was the seventh direct descendant of Adam according to the line of Set (the so-called “Great Setite Genealogy” of Gen 5), son of Enoch, father of Lamech and grandfather of Noah. Methuselah died in the year of the Flood, either before the Flood (according to the Masoretic text of Genesis 5) or after (according to the numbering of Genesis 5 in the Septuaginta [Codex Vaticanus], 1656 years after the Creation, in the year 2104 BC according to the rabbinic computation that places the Creation in 3760 BC or in 2348 BC, according to the King James Bible, which places the Creation in 4004 BC).

Methuselah is mentioned in a passage in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible, Genesis 5:21-27), as being part of the genealogy connecting Adam to Noah. That genealogy is repeated, without chronology, in the 1 Chronicles 1:3 passage, and also appears in Luke 3:37.