Nôach — H5146

H5146 · Hebrew — נח

Pronunciation: no'-akh

Definition

masculine proper noun

Noach, the patriarch of the flood

  1. Noah = "rest"
  2. 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

Usually translated as

Noah

Origin

the same as H5118; rest

Greek equivalents

Occurrences

Nôach occurs 46 times in 39 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (35), 1 Chronicles (1), Isaiah (1), Ezekiel (2)

Strong's Lexicon — N