Methuselah - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Methuselah :  (noun)
1: (Old Testament) a patriarch (grandfather of Noah) who is said to have lived 969 years [syn: Methuselah]
2: a man who is very old [syn: old man, greybeard, graybeard, Methuselah]

Based on WordNet 2.0

Methuselah :  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).



Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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