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Genesis 5:29 נֹ֖חַ Noah

And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”

Here: The name sounds like the root n-w-ḥ, 'to rest, settle', so it suggests 'Rest'. It also shares its first two consonants, n and ḥ, with the verb that follows, 'comfort/relieve' (n-ḥ-m). The match is one of sound, not strict etymology.

Genesis 5:30 נֹ֔חַ Noah

And after he had become the father of Noah, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:32 נֹ֕חַ נֹ֔חַ Noah

After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:8 וְנֹ֕חַ and Noah

Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

Here: The name comes first, ahead of the verb. Normal Hebrew storytelling puts the verb first, so starting with the subject marks a sharp contrast: 'But Noah…'. After the verdict on all humanity in verses 5–7, one man stands apart. The name sounds like *nûaḥ*, 'rest', and Genesis 5:29 links it to *nḥm*, 'comfort'.

Genesis 6:9 נֹ֔חַ נֹ֗חַ נֹֽחַ׃ Noah

This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

Here: The name is linked to 'rest/relief' (compare Lamech's hope in 5:29). Here it closes the heading.

Genesis 6:10 נֹ֖חַ Noah

And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:13 לְנֹ֗חַ to Noah

Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.

Here: Noah's name sounds like the Hebrew for 'rest', and 5:29 links it to 'comfort/relief' (nacham). God reveals the coming catastrophe to the one man found blameless (6:8–9).

Genesis 6:22 נֹ֑חַ Noah

So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.

Here: The subject. His name sounds like 'rest' and was linked in 5:29 with 'comfort, relief' (yənaḥămēnû). Here he acts without a word: Noah does not speak at all in the narrative until 9:25.

Genesis 7:1 לְנֹ֔חַ to Noah

Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

Here: Noah's name sounds like the Hebrew for "rest" and "comfort" (see 5:29). Noah himself says nothing anywhere in the flood story. He only listens and obeys.

Genesis 7:5 נֹ֑חַ Noah

And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.

Genesis 7:6 וְנֹ֕חַ and Noah

Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:7 נֹ֗חַ Noah

And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

Genesis 7:9 נֹ֛חַ נֹֽחַ׃ Noah

came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:11 נֹ֔חַ Noah

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Here: The man whose life sets the calendar. The world's catastrophe is dated by the age of the one righteous man God is saving (6:9).

Genesis 7:13 נֹ֔חַ נֹ֑חַ נֹ֗חַ Noah

On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—

Genesis 7:15 נֹ֖חַ Noah

They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.

Genesis 7:23 נֹ֛חַ Noah

And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.

Here: Noah, whose name echoes 'rest' and is linked in 5:29 to the hope of relief from the cursed ground.

Genesis 8:1 נֹ֔חַ Noah

But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

Here: The name sounds like 'rest' (nuach) and recalls his father's hope in 5:29 for 'relief' (nicham). In this verse the relief starts to come.

Genesis 8:6 נֹ֔חַ Noah

After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

Genesis 8:11 נֹ֔חַ Noah

And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

Genesis 8:13 נֹ֙חַ֙ Noah

In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

Genesis 8:15 נֹ֥חַ Noah

Then God said to Noah,

Genesis 8:18 נֹ֑חַ Noah

So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

Genesis 8:20 נֹ֛חַ Noah

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Here: The name sounds like Hebrew words for "rest" and "relief" (5:29). It sets up a pun in the next verse, where God smells a "restful" (niḥoaḥ) aroma.

Genesis 9:1 נֹ֖חַ Noah

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Here: The survivor of the flood. His name sounds like the Hebrew words for “rest” and “comfort” (5:29). Here he stands where Adam stood, as the head of a renewed humanity.

Genesis 9:8 נֹ֔חַ Noah

Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

Genesis 9:17 נֹ֑חַ Noah

So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”

Genesis 9:18 נֹ֗חַ Noah

The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.

Genesis 9:19 נֹ֑חַ Noah

These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

Genesis 9:20 נֹ֖חַ Noah

Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.

Genesis 9:24 נֹ֖חַ Noah

When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

Genesis 9:28 נֹ֖חַ Noah

After the flood, Noah lived 350 years.

Genesis 9:29 נֹ֔חַ Noah

So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.

Genesis 10:1 נֹ֔חַ Noah

This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.

Here: The survivor of the Flood, through whom the whole human family is now traced. Every nation that follows is placed in his line.

Genesis 10:32 נֹ֛חַ Noah

All these are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood.

Here: The survivor of the Flood. The verse traces every known people back to his one family, so all humanity is presented as a single extended kin-group.

1 Chronicles 1:4 נֹ֥חַ Noah

The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Isaiah 54:9 נֹ֙חַ֙ נֹ֛חַ Noah

“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.

Here: Noah's name is enough to call up the whole story of Genesis 6–9: judgment on the earth, the survivors in the ark, and God's promise never to flood the earth again.

Ezekiel 14:14 נֹ֖חַ Noah

then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.

Here: The man of the flood, whom God called righteous in his generation (Genesis 6:9; 7:1). His righteousness famously saved his whole household, which is exactly what this oracle will deny (vv. 16, 18, 20).

Ezekiel 14:20 וְנֹ֨חַ and Noah

then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.

Here: The 'and' carries on the case begun in v19 ('if I send a plague…'): this is where the 'then' part starts. Noah is the righteous man of the flood whom God spared from a judgment that wiped out a whole world (Gen 6:9).