H5146

נֹחַ

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Noah

A man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.5.29; son of: Lamech (H3929H); father of: Shem (H8035), Ham (H2526) and Japheth (H3315) Also named: Nōe (Νῶε "Noah" G3575) § Noah = "rest" son of Lamech, father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth; builder of the ark which saved his family from the destruction of the world which God sent on the world by the flood; became the new seminal head of mankind because his family were the only survivors of the flood

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

נֹחַ46 proper name, masculine Noah (Nabataean proper name נוח Lzb322, Syriac proper name MeissnVOJ viii, (1894), 303 near the end (No. 116)); — Gen 5:29 (where traditional etymology), + 40 t. Gen 5-10 (not in E D); 1Chr 1:4 נֹחַ דָּנִאֵל וְאִיּוֺב Ezek 14:14; Ezek 14:20 מֵי נֹחַ = flood Isa 54:9 (twice in verse); ᵐ5 Νωε. — On history of interpretion of name see GoldziherZMG xxiv. (1870), 207 ff.


39 occurrences

Genesis (35), I Chronicles (1), Isaiah (1), Ezekiel (2)