Methuselah or Metushélach 's the oldest person whose age's mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, given as 969 years. The name Methuselah has become a general symbol for any living creature of great age. Methuselah in the Bible Methuselah's mentioned in one passage in the Hebrew Bible, Genesis 5:21-27, as part of the genealogy linking Adam to Noah; the genealogy's repeated, without the chronology, at 1 Chronicles 1:3, and also appears at Luke 3:37. » (21) And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and… (More on Methuselah)