BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4232
me.chu.ya.el — Mehujael
A man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.4.18; son of: Irad (H5897); father of: Methushael (H4967) § Mehujael = "smitten by God" son of Irad and great grandson of Cain
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4967
me.tu.sha.el — Methushael
A man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.4.18; son of: Mehujael (H4232); father of: Lamech (H3929) § Methusael = "who is of God" son of Mehujael, 4th in descent from Cain, and father of Lamech
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5897
i.rad — Irad
A man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.4.18; son of: Enoch (H2585); father of: Mehujael (H4232) § Irad = "fleet" son of Enoch, grandson of Cain, and father of Mehujael
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →Smitten by God, the son of Irad, and father of Methusael (Gen. 4:18).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
