Methuselah
<p ><b>Methuselah</b> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language" >Hebrew</a>: מְתֿוּשֶלַח / מְתֿוּשָלַח, <small><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language#Modern_Hebrew" title="Hebrew language" >Modern</a></small> <i>Mətušélaḥ</i> / <i>Mətušálaḥ</i> <small><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberian_vocalization" title="Tiberian vocalization" >Tiberian</a></small> <i>Məṯûšélaḥ</i> / <i>Məṯûšālaḥ</i> ; "Man of the dart/spear", or alternatively "his death shall bring judgment"<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah#cite_note-1" >[1]</a></sup>) is the man in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible" >Hebrew Bible</a> reported to have lived the longest.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah#cite_note-2" >[2]</a></sup> Extra-biblical tradition maintains that he died on the 11th of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshvan" title="Cheshvan" >Cheshvan</a> of the year 1656 (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Mundi" title="Anno Mundi" >Anno Mundi</a>, after Creation), at the age of 969, seven days before the beginning of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood" title="Great Flood" class="mw-redirect" >Great Flood</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah#cite_note-3" >[3]</a></sup> Methuselah was the son of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_(ancestor_of_Noah)" title="Enoch (ancestor of Noah)" >Enoch</a> and the grandfather of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah" title="Noah" >Noah</a>.
The name Methuselah, or the phrase "old as Methuselah", is commonly used to refer to any living thing reaching great age.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" >[</sup></p>
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