BIBLE MEANINGS-ANTEDILUVIAN

 ANTEDILUVIAN-BEFORE THE FLOOD-EXTREMELY OLD-SEMMINGLY TO BELONG TO AN EARLIER PERIOD. OLD PERSON-OLDSTER-SENIOR CITIZEN .And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints, JUDE 1 14,15

Antediluvian (literally, “before the flood”) refers to the time period before the flood recorded in Genesis 6—8. The righteous people who lived before Noah’s time are called antediluvian patriarchs. Those men are listed in Genesis 5 and include Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Enoch, and Methuselah, who lived to be 969, making him the oldest person on record. The word antediluvian has also come to mean “extremely old” or “out-of-date.”