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Art by Rivka Korf Studio. 2. His Name Means “Respite” Although English speakers call him Noah, his Hebrew name is Noach, pronounced know-akh. Related to the word nachas, the name can be translated as “rest,” “gentleness,” and “pleasure.”
Strong's Concordance. Noach: "rest," patriarch who survived the flood. Original Word: נֹחַ. Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine. Transliteration: Noach. Phonetic Spelling: (no'-akh) Definition: "rest", patriarch who survived the flood. NAS Exhaustive Concordance. Word Origin.
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Noah woke up and, realizing that Ham had treated him disrespectfully, he cursed Canaan, Ham’s son, condemning him to be a slave to his father’s brothers. Noah lived 350 years after the flood and died at the age of 950. Reprinted with permission from Who’s Who in the Hebrew Bible (The Jewish Publication Society). Share.
Noah (/ ˈ n oʊ. ə /) appears as the last of the Antediluvian patriarchs in the traditions of Abrahamic religions. His story appears in the Hebrew Bible (Book of Genesis, chapters 5–9), the Quran and Baha'i writings. Noah is referenced in various other books of the Bible, including the New Testament, and in associated deuterocanonical books.
NOAH (Heb. נֹחַ), son of Lamech, father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth (Gen. 5:28–29; 6:10; I Chron. 1:4). Noah is described as a righteous and blameless man who walked with God (Gen. 6:9) and whom God decided to save from a universal *Flood to become the progenitor of a new human race.
To read the entire text in Hebrew and English, click here: Genesis 6:9-11:32. In this Torah portion, God punishes the wicked in the world by causing a giant flood. God saves Noah and his family, who will repopulate the world. We are also introduced to Abram and his wife, Sarai.
