נֹחַ
Nôach · no'-akh
Noach, the patriarch of the flood
Lexicon
Derivation: the same as H5118 (נוּחַ); rest;
Noach, the patriarch of the flood
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Noah.
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › to separate and protect
The seed, life continuing that works to separate and protect.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נֹחַ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
46 occurrences · 46 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and noah14 · 30%
- noah10 · 22%
- of noah9 · 20%
- unto noah7 · 15%
- but noah1 · 2%
- of noah's1 · 2%
- and noah's1 · 2%
- that noah1 · 2%
- so noah1 · 2%
- though noah1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.