People of the Bible › Noah
Noah נֹחַ
Flood survivor. Noah was a righteous man who built the ark and survived the great flood with his family.
Also called Noe.
Family
Where Noah appears
Genesis (35), Luke (3), Ezekiel (2), Matthew (2), 1 Chronicles (1), Isaiah (1), Hebrews (1), 1 Peter (1), 2 Peter (1)
Key verses
- Genesis 5:29 first mention — And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
- Genesis 6:9 — These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
- Genesis 6:22 — Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
- Genesis 7:1 — And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
- Genesis 7:11 — In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
- Genesis 8:1 — And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
- Genesis 8:20 — And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
- Ezekiel 14:14 — Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
- Luke 17:26 — And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
- Hebrews 11:7 — By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
- 1 Peter 3:20 — Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
- 2 Peter 2:5 — And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Several people in the Bible share this name; this page is about the one described above. Verse text: King James Version.