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# נֹחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5146

**Noah** — used 46 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Noah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5146/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֹחַ: n.pr.m. Noah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5146/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** 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.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Noah (35); of Noah (11).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.4/#tree)

נֹ֥חַ שֵׁ֖ם חָ֥ם וָיָֽפֶת׃ס

*Word for word:* Noah Shem Ham and Japheth

*JPS 1917:* Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

[Genesis 6:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.6.8/#tree)

וְנֹ֕חַ מָ֥צָא חֵ֖ן בְּעֵינֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and Noah he.found favor in the.eyes of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5146.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5146/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).