Noah

Noah (nō`ə) [Heb.,=to rest], in the Bible, the builder of the ark. Righteous Noah and his family were the only people God saved from a world sunk in sin. At divine direction Noah built the ship that saved human and animal life from the Deluge, after which God established a covenant with him. According to biblical ethnography, Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, are eponymous ancestors of races as humankind is divided in the Bible. The story has similarities with other Middle Eastern accounts of the Deluge in the Gilgamesh epic and in the Babylonian myth of Atrahasis.

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Noah

Biblical character from Genesis. The son of Lamech and ninth in descent from Adam, he was a man of blameless piety, who was chosen by God to perpetuate the human race after his wicked contemporaries had perished in the flood. On God's instructions, Noah built an ark and took into it one male and one female of each of the world's animals. After the waters receded, God set a rainbow in the sky as a guarantee of his promise never again to curse the earth. Noah was the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, from whom the entire human race is supposed to have descended. Noah is also said to have been the originator of vineyard cultivation.

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Noah

Old Testament a Hebrew patriarch, who saved himself, his family, and specimens of each species of animal and bird from the Flood by building a ship (Noah's Ark) in which they all survived (Genesis 6--8)

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Noah

inebriated from wine, sprawls naked in tent. [O.T.: Genesis 9:20–23]

See : Drunkenness

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Noah

with family and animals, escapes the Deluge. [O.T.: Genesis 8:15–19]

See : Escape

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Noah

saved from flood because of his faith. [O.T.: Genesis 6-10]

To Lovers:

See : Faithfulness

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Noah

with his sons, deemed by God worth saving from His destructive flood. [O.T.: Genesis 6–10]

See : Rescue

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Noah

only devout man of time; saved from flood. [O.T.: Genesis 6: 9–22]

See : Righteousness

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Noah

chosen by God to escape the deluge. [O.T.: Genesis 5–9]

See : Survival