נֹחַ46 H5146
Noah — the righteous patriarch who built the ark and survived the great flood, ancestor of all post-flood humanity
Noakh is the name of the man who stands at the hinge between the old world and the new. Its 46 occurrences concentrate overwhelmingly in Genesis 5-10, tracing his story from the naming oracle — 'this one shall bring us relief (nakham) from our work' (Gen 5:29, a folk etymology playing on the root n-kh-m rather than the actual root n-w-kh, 'rest') — through the building of the ark, the flood, the covenant of the rainbow, and the vineyard episode. Outside Genesis, Noah appears sparingly but with great weight: Ezekiel groups him with Daniel and Job as paragons of individual righteousness who could save only themselves (Ezek 14:14, 20), and Isaiah uses 'the waters of Noah' as shorthand for the flood itself (Isa 54:9). The name is uniformly transliterated: Spanish 'Noe,' French 'Noe,' German 'Noach.'
Senses
1. Noah (person name) — The proper name Noah (noakh, related to nuakh 'rest'), referring exclusively to the antediluvian patriarch who found favor with God, built the ark, and became the sole survivor through whom humanity was preserved (Gen 6:8-9:29). His genealogical placement as tenth from Adam (Gen 5:29-32) and father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth makes him the bridge between the primeval and the post-flood epochs. Outside Genesis, he serves as a byword for exceptional righteousness (Ezek 14:14, 20 alongside Daniel and Job) and his flood as a type of God's irrevocable covenant mercy (Isa 54:9). All 46 occurrences refer to this single individual, with 1 Chronicles 1:4 placing him in the Chronicler's genealogical framework. 46×
AR["نُوحًا", "نُوحٌ", "نُوحٍ", "نُوحَ"]·ben["নোহ", "নোহের"]·DE["Noach", "Noachs", "an-Noach"]·EN["Noach", "Noah"]·FR["Noé"]·heb["נח"]·HI["नूह", "नूह-की", "नूह-के", "नूह-को", "नूह-ने"]·ID["Nuh"]·IT["Noach", "Noè"]·jav["Nuh"]·KO["노아", "노아-가", "노아-는", "노아-의"]·PT["Noé", "de-Noé"]·RU["Ной", "Ною", "Ноя"]·ES["Noaj"]·SW["Nuhu"]·TR["Nuh", "Nuh'a", "Nuh'u", "Nuh'un"]·urd["نوح", "نوح-نے", "نوح-کی", "نوح-کے"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
נֹחַ46 n.pr.m. Noah (Nab. n.pr. נוח Lzb 322, Syriac n.pr. ܢܘܚ MeissnVOJ viii, (1894), 303 ad fin. (No. 116));—Gn 5:29 (where trad. etym.), + 40 times Gn 5–10 (not in ED); 1 Ch 1:4; נֹחַ דָּנִאֵל וְאִיּוֹב Ez 14:14, 20; מֵי נֹחַ = flood Is 54:9(×2); 𝔊 Νωε.—On hist. of interpret. of name v. GoldziherZMG xxiv. (1870), 207 ff.