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title: נֹחַ — Noah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נֹחַ (5146), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 46 times: Noah. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. Noah. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נֹחַ

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«נֹחַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Noah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 46 times · **Key:** 5146 · **BDB:** נֹחַ

### Glosses

Noah (35); of.Noah (11)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נֹחַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5146/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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נֹ֥חַ שֵׁ֖ם חָ֥ם וָיָֽפֶת׃ס

*Word for word:* Noah Shem Ham and Japheth

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

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

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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.

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