nōḥa נֹחַ ‘Noah’ (Hebrew)
Etymology?:
the same as nūḥa נוּחַ ‘rest’
Roots:
נוח נוח
nōḥa pr n m pers
Noah = "rest"
1) son of Lamech, father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth; builder of the ark which saved his family from the destruction of the world which God sent on the world by the flood; became the new seminal head of mankind because his family were the only survivors of the flood