methuselah

«methuselah» in Mova's school dictionary: a man in the Book of Genesis who is said to have lived… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (Methuselah; a methuselah, methuselahs)

meaning for a pupil

1) (Bible) Methuselah is a man in the Book of Genesis who is said to have lived 969 years, the oldest person in the Bible. tree →

2) (informal) A methuselah is a very old person or thing. tree →

3) A methuselah is also a very large wine bottle holding six litres. tree →

sense in the lessons

Met in Bible lessons and in sayings: «as old as Methuselah» means extremely old. Also the name of a very old bristlecone pine tree in California.

examples

• The Bible says Methuselah lived to be 969 years old. tree →
• Grandad jokes that he is as old as Methuselah. tree →
• Methuselah was the grandfather of Noah. tree →
• A pine tree called Methuselah is nearly 5,000 years old. tree →
• That old car is a real methuselah. tree →
• A methuselah holds as much as eight normal bottles. tree →

note

As a Bible name, capital M. Christians and Jews read the long ages in Genesis in different ways; some take them literally, many see them as symbolic. No real person today lives anywhere near that long.

In the corpora

• And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begot Methuselah.
• And Enoch walked with God after he begot Methuselah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
• And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begot Lamech.
• And Methuselah lived after he begot Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begot sons and daughters.
• And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years; and he died.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «methuselah» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.