noach · Noah

What it means

noach (נֹחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Noah”.

Son of Lamech, the man who found favor with YHWH and was saved with his family in the ark from the flood. In Hebrew "Noach" sounds like "rest" and "comfort" (Genesis 5:29).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×41
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×2
• Ezekiel×2

• Genesis 5:29

  And he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us from our work and from the toil of our hands, from the ground that YHWH has cursed.”

• Genesis 5:30

  And Lamech lived after he fathered Noah five hundred and ninety-five years and fathered sons and daughters.

• Genesis 5:32

  And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

• Genesis 6:8

  But Noah found favor in the eyes of YHWH.

• Genesis 6:9

  These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; with Elohim Noah walked.

• Genesis 6:10

  And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

• Genesis 6:13

  And Elohim said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and look, I am going to destroy them with the earth.

• Genesis 6:22

  And Noah did so; according to all that Elohim commanded him, so he did.

• Genesis 7:1

  And YHWH said to Noah, “Come, you and all your household, into the ark, for you I have seen to be righteous before me in this generation.

• Genesis 7:5

  And Noah did according to all that YHWH had commanded him.

• Genesis 7:6

  And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came, waters on the earth.

• Genesis 7:7

  And Noah went into the ark, and his sons and his wife and the wives of his sons with him, because of the waters of the flood.

• Genesis 7:9

  two and two they came to Noah into the ark, male and female, as Elohim had commanded Noah.

• Genesis 7:11

  In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the springs of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

• Genesis 7:13

  On that very day Noah went into the ark, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with them,

• Genesis 7:15

  And they came to Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the spirit of life.

• Genesis 7:23

  And he wiped out all that existed that was on the face of the ground, from human being to livestock, to creeping things and to the birds of the sky; and they were wiped out from the earth. And only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.

• Genesis 8:1

  And Elohim remembered Noah and all the animals and all the livestock that were with him in the ark; and Elohim made a wind pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

• Genesis 8:6

  And it happened at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

• Genesis 8:11

  And the dove came to him at evening time, and look, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had decreased from the earth.

• Genesis 8:13

  And it happened in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and look, the face of the ground had dried.

• Genesis 8:15

  And Elohim spoke to Noah, saying,

• Genesis 8:18

  And Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and the wives of his sons with him.

• Genesis 8:20

  And Noah built an altar to YHWH, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

• Genesis 9:1

  And Elohim blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

• Genesis 9:8

  And Elohim spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

• Genesis 9:17

  And Elohim said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

• Genesis 9:18

  And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.

• Genesis 9:19

  These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was spread out.

• Genesis 9:20

  And Noah, a man of the ground, was the first to plant a vineyard.

• Genesis 9:24

  And Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

• Genesis 9:28

  And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

• Genesis 9:29

  And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

• Genesis 10:1

  And these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.

• Genesis 10:32

  These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations separated on the earth after the flood.

• 1 Chronicles 1:4

  Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

• Isaiah 54:9

  “For like the waters of Noah is this to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah would not again pass over the earth, so I have sworn not to be angry with you or to rebuke you.

• Ezekiel 14:14

  and these three men were in its midst, Noah, Daniel, and Job, they by their righteousness would deliver their souls, declares Adonai YHWH.

• Ezekiel 14:20

  and Noah, Daniel, and Job were in its midst, as I live, declares Adonai YHWH, neither son nor daughter would they deliver; they by their righteousness would deliver their souls.

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