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Noah

Also called Noe

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In Genesis 6–9, the man told to build an ark, who survives the flood with his family and the animals.

See Genesis 6:14, Genesis 7:23.

An ark and a dove with an olive leaf marks Noah in the reading view: the dove that returned with an olive leaf (Genesis 8:11).

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Mentioned in 47 verses across 9 books, first in Genesis 5:29. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

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In the Bible

All 35 verses in Genesis, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Genesis

  • Genesis 5:29

    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.”

  • Genesis 5:30

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

  • Genesis 5:32

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

  • Genesis 6:8

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

  • Genesis 6:9

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

  • Genesis 6:10

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

  • Genesis 6:13

    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.

  • Genesis 6:22

    So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.

  • Genesis 7:1

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

  • Genesis 7:5

    And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.

  • Genesis 7:6

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

  • Genesis 7:7

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

  • Genesis 7:9

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

  • Genesis 7:11

    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.

  • Genesis 7:13

    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

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

  • Genesis 7:23

    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.

  • Genesis 8:1

    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.

  • Genesis 8:6

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

  • Genesis 8:11

    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

    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

    Then God said to Noah,

  • Genesis 8:18

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

  • Genesis 8:20

    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.

  • Genesis 9:1

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

  • Genesis 9:8

    Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

  • Genesis 9:17

    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

    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

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

  • Genesis 9:20

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

  • Genesis 9:24

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

  • Genesis 9:28

    After the flood, Noah lived 350 years.

  • Genesis 9:29

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

  • Genesis 10:1

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

  • Genesis 10:32

    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.

Events

Events the dataset lists Noah as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

  1. c. 2948 BC
    Birth of NoahGenesis 5:28–29
  2. c. 2948 BC
    Lifetime of NoahGenesis 5:32–9:29
  3. c. 2446 BC
    Birth of ShemGenesis 5:32
  4. c. 2400 BC
    God instructs Noah to build the arkGenesis 6:8–7:5
  5. c. 2348 BC
    The Great Flood beginsGenesis 7:6–17
  6. c. 2348 BC
    The Great FloodGenesis 7:6–8:19 · at Ararat
  7. c. 2348 BC
    Water covers the earthGenesis 7:18–24
  8. c. 2347 BC
    The flood subsidesGenesis 8:1–14 · at Ararat
  9. c. 2347 BC
    Leaving the ArkGenesis 8:15–19 · at Ararat
  10. c. 2347 BC
    God makes a covenant with NoahGenesis 8:20–9:17
  11. c. 2346 BC
    Noah gets drunk and Canaan is cursedGenesis 9:20–27
  12. c. 1998 BC
    Death of NoahGenesis 9:29

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

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](/gen#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)..

Noah, motion, (Heb. No’ah) one of the five daughters of Zelophehad (Num. 26:33; 27:1; 36:11; Josh. 17:3).

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