noah

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noah - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Noah \No"ah\, prop. n. [Heb. N[=o]akh rest.]
     A patriarch of Biblical history, in the time of the Deluge.
     [1913 Webster]

noah - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Noah
      n 1: the Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and
           the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40
           days and 40 nights of rain; the story of Noah and the flood
           is told in the Book of Genesis

noah - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Noah
  rest, (Heb. Noah) the grandson of Methuselah (Gen. 5:25-29), who
  was for two hundred and fifty years contemporary with Adam, and
  the son of Lamech, who was about fifty years old at the time of
  Adam's death. This patriarch is rightly regarded as the
  connecting link between the old and the new world. He is the
  second great progenitor of the human family.
  
    The words of his father Lamech at his birth (Gen. 5:29) have
  been regarded as in a sense prophetical, designating Noah as a
  type of Him who is the true "rest and comfort" of men under the
  burden of life (Matt.11:28).
  
    He lived five hundred years, and then there were born unto him
  three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth (Gen. 5:32). He was a "just
  man and perfect in his generation," and "walked with God" (comp.
  Ezek. 14:14,20). But now the descendants of Cain and of Seth
  began to intermarry, and then there sprang up a race
  distinguished for their ungodliness. Men became more and more
  corrupt, and God determined to sweep the earth of its wicked
  population (Gen. 6:7). But with Noah God entered into a
  covenant, with a promise of deliverance from the threatened
  deluge (18). He was accordingly commanded to build an ark
  (6:14-16) for the saving of himself and his house. An interval
  of one hundred and twenty years elapsed while the ark was being
  built (6:3), during which Noah bore constant testimony against
  the unbelief and wickedness of that generation (1 Pet. 3:18-20;
  2 Pet. 2:5).
  
    When the ark of "gopher-wood" (mentioned only here) was at
  length completed according to the command of the Lord, the
  living creatures that were to be preserved entered into it; and
  then Noah and his wife and sons and daughters-in-law entered it,
  and the "Lord shut him in" (Gen.7:16). The judgment-threatened
  now fell on the guilty world, "the world that then was, being
  overflowed with water, perished" (2 Pet. 3:6). The ark floated
  on the waters for one hundred and fifty days, and then rested on
  the mountains of Ararat (Gen. 8:3,4); but not for a considerable
  time after this was divine permission given him to leave the
  ark, so that he and his family were a whole year shut up within
  it (Gen. 6-14).
  
    On leaving the ark Noah's first act was to erect an altar, the
  first of which there is any mention, and offer the sacrifices of
  adoring thanks and praise to God, who entered into a covenant
  with him, the first covenant between God and man, granting him
  possession of the earth by a new and special charter, which
  remains in force to the present time (Gen. 8:21-9:17). As a sign
  and witness of this covenant, the rainbow was adopted and set
  apart by God, as a sure pledge that never again would the earth
  be destroyed by a flood.
  
    But, alas! Noah after this fell into grievous sin (Gen. 9:21);
  and the conduct of Ham on this sad occasion led to the memorable
  prediction regarding his three sons and their descendants. Noah
  "lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years, and he
  died" (28:29). (See DELUGE).
  
    Noah, motion, (Heb. No'ah) one of the five daughters of
  Zelophehad (Num.26:33; 27:1; 36:11; Josh. 17:3).