methuselah in English

noun
1
(in the Bible) a patriarch, the grandfather of Noah, who is said to have lived for 969 years.
noun
1
a wine bottle of eight times the standard size.
But did you know that a methuselah is eight bottles worth or six litres of wine - referred to in Bordeaux as an imperiale?
noun

Use "methuselah" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "methuselah" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "methuselah", or refer to the context using the word "methuselah" in the English Dictionary.

1. Not even Methuselah lived that long! —Genesis 5:27.

2. [21] And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and Begat Methuselah: [22] And Enoch walked with God after he Begat Methuselah three hundred years, and Begat sons and daughters:

3. (Genesis 5:27) Both Methuselah and Lamech had been contemporaries of the first man, Adam.

4. Methuselah, for instance, was only seven generations removed from Adam. —Luke 3:37, 38.

5. 5 And it came to pass that Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, and begat Lamech;

6. * Noah was ordained to the priesthood when he was ten years old by Methuselah, D&C 107:52.

7. 1 Adam Begat Seth; and Seth, Enos, [Adam, Seth, Enos,] 2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered, 3 Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech, 4 Noe, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.