Methuselah

See also: methuselah

English

Etymology

From Hebrew מְתוּשֶׁלַח (M'tušelaḥ), also spelled מְתוּשָׁלַח (M'tušalaḥ). The planet's name stems from the fact that, at the time of its discovery in 2003, it was the oldest known planet.

Proper noun

Methuselah

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

   Synonyms: Planet Methuselah, Methuselah Planet, Genesis, Planet Genesis, Genesis Planet

Quotations

(Biblical character):

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

Derived terms

• as old as Methuselah
• Methuselaic
• Methuselan

 

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: Μαθουσάλα m (Mathousála)

  Ancient Greek: Μαθουσάλας (Mathousálas)

• 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) (matušâlah)
• 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

Noun

Methuselah (plural Methuselahs)

1. (by extension) Any person or thing that has lived to a very old age.
2. Alternative spelling of methuselah (“large wine bottle”).

Translations

person or thing that has lived to a very old age

• Hungarian: matuzsálem (hu)
• Portuguese: matusalém (pt) m