Methuselah
me.tu.she.lach is a personal name used for the man named as Enoch’s son and Lamech’s father in a genealogical sequence.
The attested use is a personal name within a genealogical sequence: the named man is begotten by Enoch, begets Lamech, and is listed with his lifespan and death.
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Personal name in a genealogical line · dominant
All six occurrences are tagged Noun · Proper and identify the same individual in a lineage. In Genesis 5:21 the APB renders Enoch as begetting “Methuselah”; Genesis 5:25 and Genesis 5:26 place him as the one who begot Lamech, while Genesis 5:27 records his days and death. In 1 Chronicles 1:3 the APB renders the name in the sequence “Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB presents the proper name as “Methuselah,” whether in a lineage list, in begetting statements, or in the notice of his days and death. The verse is read as a whole, but its repeated name presentation matches the proper-noun morphology.