מְתוּשֶׁלַח Metushelach
Often spelled Methuselah in English. Every verse in which this name stands — 6 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the occurrences our own corpus tags as this name, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.
Son of Chanoch and grandfather of Noach, recorded in Genesis 5 as living 969 years — the longest lifespan named in the Torah. He is named only in the genealogies of Genesis 5 and 1 Chronicles 1, with no episode of his own recorded.
וַֽיְחִי חֲנוֹךְ חָמֵשׁ וְשִׁשִּׁים שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד אֶת־מְתוּשָֽׁלַח
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begot Methuselah.
וַיִּתְהַלֵּךְ חֲנוֹךְ אֶת־הָֽאֱלֹהִים אַֽחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ אֶת־מְתוּשֶׁלַח שְׁלֹשׁ מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בָּנִים וּבָנֽוֹת
And Enoch walked with God after he begot Methuselah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
וַיְחִי מְתוּשֶׁלַח שֶׁבַע וּשְׁמֹנִים שָׁנָה וּמְאַת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד אֶת־לָֽמֶךְ
And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begot Lamech.
וַֽיְחִי מְתוּשֶׁלַח אַֽחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ אֶת־לֶמֶךְ שְׁתַּיִם וּשְׁמוֹנִים שָׁנָה וּשְׁבַע מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בָּנִים וּבָנֽוֹת
And Methuselah lived after he begot Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begot sons and daughters.
וַיִּהְיוּ כָּל־יְמֵי מְתוּשֶׁלַח תֵּשַׁע וְשִׁשִּׁים שָׁנָה וּתְשַׁע מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיָּמֹֽת
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years; and he died.
חֲנוֹךְ מְתוּשֶׁלַח לָֽמֶךְ
Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech;
Quick answers
What is the gematria of Metushelach?
Metushelach (Methuselah) — מתושלח in Hebrew — has a gematria of 784 in the standard method.
How many times is Metushelach named in the Tanakh?
6 times, first at Genesis 5:21.
A spelling is not a name. The written word מתושלח stands 6 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell another name or an ordinary word, and a name written with a particle attached is a word that search never returns. It is here, as itself.
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