Lexicon :: Strong's H5146 - nōaḥ

And he named him Noah,[fn] saying, “This one will bring us relief from the agonizing labor of our hands, caused by the ground the LORD has cursed.”

Noah was 500 years old, and he fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Noah, however, found favor with the LORD.

Then God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

And Noah did this. He did everything that God had commanded him.

Then the LORD said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation.

And Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him.

two of each, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, just as God had commanded him.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the vast watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,

On that same day Noah and his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, entered the ark, along with Noah’s wife and his three sons’ wives.

Two of every creature that has the breath of life in it came to Noah and entered the ark.

He wiped out every living thing that was on the face of the earth, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.

God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside.

After forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

When the dove came to him at evening, there was a plucked olive leaf in its beak. So Noah knew that the water on the earth’s surface had gone down.

In the six hundred first year,[fn] in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark’s cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.

Then God spoke to Noah,

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

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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

Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

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

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

Now Noah lived 350 years after the flood.

These are the family records of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.

These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their family records, in their nations. The nations on earth spread out from these after the flood.

Noah, Noah’s sons:[fn]

Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

“For this is like the days[fn] of Noah to me:

when I swore that the water of Noah

would never flood the earth again,

so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you

or rebuke you.

“Even if these three men ​— ​Noah, Daniel, and Job ​— ​were in it, they would rescue only themselves by their righteousness.” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.

“Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live” ​— ​the declaration of the Lord GOD ​— ​“they could not rescue their son or daughter. They would rescue only themselves by their righteousness.