NOAH

Rest, comfort, the name of celebrated patriarch who was preserved by Jehovah with his family, by means of the ark, through the deluge, and thus became the second founder of the human race. The history of Noah and the deluge is contained in Ge 5:1-9:29. He was the son of Lamech, and grandson of Methuselah lived six hundred years before the deluge, and three hundred and fifty after it, dying two years before Abram was born. His name may have been given to him by his parents in the hope that he would be the promised "seed of the woman" that should "bruise the serpent’s head." He was in the line of the patriarchs who feared God, and was himself a just man, Eze 14:14,20, and a "preacher of righteousness," 1Pe 3:19,20 2Pe 2:5. His efforts to reform the degenerate world, continued as some suppose for one hundred and twenty years, produced little effect, Mt 24:37; the flood did not "find faith upon the earth." Noah, however, was an example of real faith: he believed the warning of God, was moved by fear, and pursued the necessary course of action, Heb 11:7. His first care on coming out from the ark was to worship the Lord, with sacrifices of all the fitting animals. Little more is recorded of him except his falling into intoxication, a sad instance of the shame and misfortune into which wine is apt to lead. His three sons, it is believed, peopled the whole word; the posterity of Japheth chiefly occupying Europe, those of Shem Asia, and those of Ham Africa. Numerous traces of traditions respecting Noah have been found all over the world. Among the most accurate is that embodied in the legend of the Greeks respecting Deucalion and Pyrrha. We may also mention the medals struck at Apamea in Phrygia, in the time of Septimus Severus, and bearing the name NO, an ark, a man and woman, a raven, and a dove with an olive branch in its mouth. See ARK.

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His Genealogy. His blood was pure back to Seth (Genesis 5:3-32), and he was a son of God (Genesis 6:9). His Sons. Noah had three sons--Shem, Ham, and Japheth (Genesis 5:32). The order of their births is somewhat difficult to determine. Ham was the youngest (Genesis 9:22-24) and the proof goes to show that Shem was the first born (Genesis 5:32). What is the obvious meaning of this statement? Simply that Noah was five hundred years old At the birth of Shem and that the others were born afterwards. Is there Anything in the subsequent history of Noah and his sons that is against This interpretation? Let us see. The phrase "Japheth the elder" (Genesis 10:21) does not express seniority according to the testimony of the best scholars. Noah was six hundred years old at the flood (Genesis 7:6), and Shem was one hundred at this time (600 - 500 = 100). Noah and his family entered the ark on the tenth day (Genesis 7:1-10) of the second month of the six hundredth year of Noah's life (Genesis 7:11), and came out on the twenty-seventh day of the second month of the six hundred and first year of his life (Genesis 8:12-14). They were in the ark one year and seventeen days. Shem was at least one Hundred one years and seventeen days old when he came out of the ark (Genesis 5:32; Genesis 7:7-11; Genesis 8:12-19). Arphaxad was born two years after the flood, that is, after the flood began (Genesis 11:10,11). Shem was, therefore, one hundred two years old at the birth of Arphaxad. Gods Revelation to Him'. God revealed to Noah His purpose to Destroy the human race. The limit already placed upon the existence of The wicked people was one hundred twenty years. (Genesis 6:3,11-13). The Ark. Noah was commanded to make an ark of gopher wood. The Dimensions, allowing eighteen inches to the cubit, were four hundred Fifty long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high (Genesis 6:15). During the building of the Ark Noah preached righteousness to his contemporaries (2 Peter 2:5). Inmates of the Ark. The ark contained eight persons--Noah, his Wife, three sons and their wives, and two of every kind of unclean Animals, and seven pair of animals that were clean, and seven pair of All kinds of fowls (Genesis 6:17-22; Genesis 7:1-16). The Flood. The water fell in ceaseless torrents for forty days And forty nights until the highest mountains were covered fully Twenty-two and a half feet (Genesis 7:12,20), and ended in the destruction of everything upon the dry land (Genesis 7:21-24). Noahs Salvation'. Noah's salvation is ascribed to faith, fear, the ark, obedience, water (Genesis 6:22; Genesis 7:5; Hebrews 11:7; 1 Peter 3:19-21). Gods Covenant with Noah'. After the flood God established a Covenant with Noah that He would never again destroy all living flesh By water (Genesis 8:18-22; Genesis 9:1-17).

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Noah. 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).

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Noah. that quavers or totters (Zelophehad's daughter)

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Noah. repose; consolation

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NOAH. 1. Son of Lamech Ge 5:28,29
* Builds an ark (ship) and saves his family from the great flood Ge 6:14-22; 7; 8; Mt 24:38; Lu 17:27; Heb 11:7; 1Pe 3:20
* Builds an altar and offers sacrifices Ge 8:20,21
* Receives the covenant from God that no flood would ever again visit the earth; the rainbow instituted as a token of the covenant Ge 8:20,22; 9:9-17
* Intoxication of, and his curse upon Canaan Ge 9:20-27
* His blessing upon Shem and Japheth Ge 9:26,27
* Dies at the age of nine-hundred and fifty years Ge 9:28,29

2. A daughter of Zelophehad, special legislation in regard to the inheritance of Nu 26:33; 27:1-7; 36; Jos 17:3-7

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son of Lamech (1) General References to Ge 5:29; 6:8; 7:1; 8:1,20; 9:1,17,29; Mt 24:37; Heb 11:7 1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 2:5 (2) Facts concerning Walked with God amidst evil surroundings Ge 6:8-12 Obedient when appointed to a hard task Ge 6:14,22; 7:5 Remembered by the Lord and delivered from death Ge 8:1 By Faith worked out his own salvation Heb 11:7 Warned his neighbours of impending judgment 2Pe 2:5 Built the first altar recorded Ge 8:20 Honoured by God with an everlasting covenant Ge 9:12-17

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No″ah (?), n. [[Heb. Nōakh rest.]] A patriarch of Biblical history, in the time of the Deluge. Noah's ark. (a) (Zoöl.) A marine bivalve shell (Arca Noæ), which somewhat resembles an ark, or ship, in form. (b) A child's toy, consisting of an ark-shaped box containing many different wooden animals.