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Genesis 5:25 KJV
Genesis · chapter 5 · verse 25
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:Genesis 5:25 · King James Version
Genesis 5:25 in context
23And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
24And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
25And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
26And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
27And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- MethuselahMᵉthûwshelachMethushelach, an antediluvian patriarchH4968 →
- hundredmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- hundredshâneha yearH8141 →
- eightyshᵉmônîymeighty, also eightiethH8084 →
- livedchâyâhto live, whether literally or figurativelyH2421 →
- sevenshebaʻsevenH7651 →
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Concerning Methuselah observe, 1. The signification of his name, which some think was prophetical, his father Enoch being a prophet. Methuselah signifies, he dies, or there is a dart, or, a sending forth, namely, of the deluge, which came the very year that Methuselah died.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 25-27