Noah Summary
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Noah was a righteous man who built the ark and survived the great flood with his family.
son of Lamech (GEN 5:28-29)
Lineage: God › Adam › Seth › Enos › Cainan › Mahalaleel › Jared › Enoch › Methuselah › Lamech › Noah
Names
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en
Noah
that quavers or totters (Zelophehad's daughter)
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Noe
· Also called same as Noah
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Noah
· Also called · H5146 G3575 · GEN 5:29 rest, comfort
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he
נֹ֖חַ
noach · H5146 · GEN 5:29 rest, comfort
- he נֹחַ · H5146
- el Νωε Noe · G3575 · GEN 5:29
- el Νῶε · G3575
- bg Ной
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Gen 5:29
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Gen 7:1
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Gen 9:1
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Gen 9:24
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Gen 10:1
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1 Chr 1:4
Isa 54:9
Ezek 14:14
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Matt 24:37
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Luke 3:36
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Heb 11:7
1 Pet 3:20
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Age · 950
Explicitly stated · Age explicitly stated in the Bible text.
Source calculation and assumptions
The year of Noah_1's birth is the year his father, Lamech_2, was born (875) + the age of his father at Noah_1's birth (182) = 1057
The year of Noah_1's death is the year the Flood ended (1658) + the years he lived afterward (350) = 2008
The Flood occurred in the 600th year of Noah's life 600 years before the Flood +001 year of the Flood +350 years after the Flood =951 years
Dates and sources (15)
Absolute years are conditional chronological estimates. A biblical passage may state an age or event, but does not by itself establish a BCE year. Different calendar systems are preserved separately.
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Birth BibleData Matches the current date; this is not historical verificationAH with conditional Ussher anchor:
1057→ ≈ 2948 BCSource record and calculation
Birth_Noah_1·event_year_ahbibledata/BibleData-Event.csv· record 15The year of Noah_1's birth is the year his father, Lamech_2, was born (875) + the age of his father at Noah_1's birth (182) = 1057[Shulman date p15] [Ussher date p18]SHA-256:007572f30035616c4a995fd136f6698a2e3890e82c95a051a25baf181865c5f4 -
Birth BibleData Matches the current date; this is not historical verificationUssher BCE year:
2948→ ≈ 2948 BCSource record and calculation
Birth_Noah_1·ussher_bce_yearbibledata/BibleData-Event.csv· record 15The year of Noah_1's birth is the year his father, Lamech_2, was born (875) + the age of his father at Noah_1's birth (182) = 1057[Shulman date p15] [Ussher date p18]SHA-256:007572f30035616c4a995fd136f6698a2e3890e82c95a051a25baf181865c5f4 -
Birth BibleData Matches the current date; this is not historical verificationAH with conditional Ussher anchor:
1057→ ≈ 2948 BCSource record and calculation
Life_of_Noah_1·start_year_ahbibledata/BibleData-Epoch.csv· record 12The year of Noah_1's birth is the year his father, Lamech_2, was born (875) + the age of his father at Noah_1's birth (182) = 1057The Flood occurred in the 600th year of Noah's life 600 years before the Flood +001 year of the Flood +350 years after the Flood =951 yearsSHA-256:27a244b1e04c2c8b42a6823eebf2b52d926d5a96f2b58150a363ae8fb55f5e0a -
Birth BibleData Alternative estimateBibleData BCE year:
2905→ ≈ 2905 BCSource record and calculation
Birth_Noah_1·bce_yearbibledata/BibleData-Event.csv· record 15The year of Noah_1's birth is the year his father, Lamech_2, was born (875) + the age of his father at Noah_1's birth (182) = 1057[Shulman date p15] [Ussher date p18]SHA-256:007572f30035616c4a995fd136f6698a2e3890e82c95a051a25baf181865c5f4 -
Birth BibleData Unverified estimate without an established conversionShulman AM:
1056· No established conversion to a BCE/CE year.Source record and calculation
Birth_Noah_1·shulman_am_yearbibledata/BibleData-Event.csv· record 15The year of Noah_1's birth is the year his father, Lamech_2, was born (875) + the age of his father at Noah_1's birth (182) = 1057[Shulman date p15] [Ussher date p18]SHA-256:007572f30035616c4a995fd136f6698a2e3890e82c95a051a25baf181865c5f4 -
Birth BibleData Unverified estimate without an established conversionUssher AM:
1056· No established conversion to a BCE/CE year.Source record and calculation
Birth_Noah_1·ussher_am_yearbibledata/BibleData-Event.csv· record 15The year of Noah_1's birth is the year his father, Lamech_2, was born (875) + the age of his father at Noah_1's birth (182) = 1057[Shulman date p15] [Ussher date p18]SHA-256:007572f30035616c4a995fd136f6698a2e3890e82c95a051a25baf181865c5f4 -
Birth Theographic Alternative estimateTheographic signed year:
-2948· Calendar interpretation is unverified; the raw value is shown.Person mentions; these are not evidence for this date: 47
Gen.5.29Gen.5.30Gen.5.32Gen.6.8Gen.6.9Gen.6.10Gen.6.13Gen.6.22Gen.7.1Gen.7.5Gen.7.6Gen.7.7Gen.7.9Gen.7.11Gen.7.13Gen.7.15Gen.7.23Gen.8.1Gen.8.6Gen.8.11Gen.8.13Gen.8.15Gen.8.18Gen.8.20Gen.9.1Gen.9.8Gen.9.17Gen.9.18Gen.9.19Gen.9.20Gen.9.24Gen.9.28Gen.9.29Gen.10.1Gen.10.321Chr.1.4Isa.54.9Ezek.14.14Ezek.14.20Matt.24.37Matt.24.38Luke.3.36Luke.17.26Luke.17.27Heb.11.71Pet.3.202Pet.2.5Source record and calculation
noah_2210·birthYeartheographic/People.csv· record 2196SHA-256:48deebacc16992b541811d74947d26177ca0731851b90ae8b065ec3ae7c8f086 -
Death BibleData Matches the current date; this is not historical verificationUssher BCE year:
1998→ ≈ 1998 BCGenesis 9:29 explicitly gives 950, not 951. Given source birthAH 1057, the age-derived boundary isAH 2007; this is not a new independent absolute date.
GEN 9:28-29Source record and calculation
Death_Noah_1·ussher_bce_yearbibledata/BibleData-Event.csv· record 38The year of Noah_1's death is the year the Flood ended (1658) + the years he lived afterward (350) = 2008The Flood concluded in the 601st year of Noah's life: 601 years + 350 years = 951 years The THIRD death after the Flood recorded in Scripture was Noah. [Shulman date p15] [Ussher date p22]SHA-256:7e5fd298b266d05bae5af0fdd4b2d44c14e881dfd530350e8fe6ba8cbf957e02 -
Death BibleData Matches the current date; this is not historical verificationScriptural age + conditional chronological anchor: ≈ 1998 BC
Source record and calculation
biblical-age:Noah_1·derived_end_yeardatabase:person_age_evidence· record 10(1057 AH - 4004) + 950 scripture age years = -1997 astronomicalAge explicitly stated in the Bible text.SHA-256:55f655ea53b24f17a5190fada01721627d1f97fb9cab439a1ddaa6f1d119a60d -
Death BibleData Rejected assertionBibleData BCE year:
1954→ ≈ 1954 BCGenesis 9:29 explicitly gives 950, not 951. Given source birthAH 1057, the age-derived boundary isAH 2007; this is not a new independent absolute date.
GEN 9:28-29Source record and calculation
Death_Noah_1·bce_yearbibledata/BibleData-Event.csv· record 38The year of Noah_1's death is the year the Flood ended (1658) + the years he lived afterward (350) = 2008The Flood concluded in the 601st year of Noah's life: 601 years + 350 years = 951 years The THIRD death after the Flood recorded in Scripture was Noah. [Shulman date p15] [Ussher date p22]SHA-256:7e5fd298b266d05bae5af0fdd4b2d44c14e881dfd530350e8fe6ba8cbf957e02 -
Death BibleData Rejected assertionAH with conditional Ussher anchor:
2008→ ≈ 1997 BCGenesis 9:29 explicitly gives 950, not 951. Given source birthAH 1057, the age-derived boundary isAH 2007; this is not a new independent absolute date.
GEN 9:28-29Source record and calculation
Death_Noah_1·event_year_ahbibledata/BibleData-Event.csv· record 38The year of Noah_1's death is the year the Flood ended (1658) + the years he lived afterward (350) = 2008The Flood concluded in the 601st year of Noah's life: 601 years + 350 years = 951 years The THIRD death after the Flood recorded in Scripture was Noah. [Shulman date p15] [Ussher date p22]SHA-256:7e5fd298b266d05bae5af0fdd4b2d44c14e881dfd530350e8fe6ba8cbf957e02 -
Death BibleData Unverified estimate without an established conversionShulman AM:
2006· No established conversion to a BCE/CE year.Genesis 9:29 explicitly gives 950, not 951. Given source birthAH 1057, the age-derived boundary isAH 2007; this is not a new independent absolute date.
GEN 9:28-29Source record and calculation
Death_Noah_1·shulman_am_yearbibledata/BibleData-Event.csv· record 38The year of Noah_1's death is the year the Flood ended (1658) + the years he lived afterward (350) = 2008The Flood concluded in the 601st year of Noah's life: 601 years + 350 years = 951 years The THIRD death after the Flood recorded in Scripture was Noah. [Shulman date p15] [Ussher date p22]SHA-256:7e5fd298b266d05bae5af0fdd4b2d44c14e881dfd530350e8fe6ba8cbf957e02 -
Death BibleData Unverified estimate without an established conversionUssher AM:
2006· No established conversion to a BCE/CE year.Genesis 9:29 explicitly gives 950, not 951. Given source birthAH 1057, the age-derived boundary isAH 2007; this is not a new independent absolute date.
GEN 9:28-29Source record and calculation
Death_Noah_1·ussher_am_yearbibledata/BibleData-Event.csv· record 38The year of Noah_1's death is the year the Flood ended (1658) + the years he lived afterward (350) = 2008The Flood concluded in the 601st year of Noah's life: 601 years + 350 years = 951 years The THIRD death after the Flood recorded in Scripture was Noah. [Shulman date p15] [Ussher date p22]SHA-256:7e5fd298b266d05bae5af0fdd4b2d44c14e881dfd530350e8fe6ba8cbf957e02 -
Death BibleData Rejected assertionAH with conditional Ussher anchor:
2008→ ≈ 1997 BCThe period 951 contradicts the explicit 950 years.
GEN 9:29Source record and calculation
Life_of_Noah_1·end_year_ahbibledata/BibleData-Epoch.csv· record 12The year of Noah_1's death is the year the Flood ended (1658) + the years he lived afterward (350) = 2008The Flood occurred in the 600th year of Noah's life 600 years before the Flood +001 year of the Flood +350 years after the Flood =951 yearsSHA-256:27a244b1e04c2c8b42a6823eebf2b52d926d5a96f2b58150a363ae8fb55f5e0a -
Death Theographic Alternative estimateTheographic signed year:
-1998· Calendar interpretation is unverified; the raw value is shown.Person mentions; these are not evidence for this date: 47
Gen.5.29Gen.5.30Gen.5.32Gen.6.8Gen.6.9Gen.6.10Gen.6.13Gen.6.22Gen.7.1Gen.7.5Gen.7.6Gen.7.7Gen.7.9Gen.7.11Gen.7.13Gen.7.15Gen.7.23Gen.8.1Gen.8.6Gen.8.11Gen.8.13Gen.8.15Gen.8.18Gen.8.20Gen.9.1Gen.9.8Gen.9.17Gen.9.18Gen.9.19Gen.9.20Gen.9.24Gen.9.28Gen.9.29Gen.10.1Gen.10.321Chr.1.4Isa.54.9Ezek.14.14Ezek.14.20Matt.24.37Matt.24.38Luke.3.36Luke.17.26Luke.17.27Heb.11.71Pet.3.202Pet.2.5Source record and calculation
noah_2210·deathYeartheographic/People.csv· record 2196SHA-256:48deebacc16992b541811d74947d26177ca0731851b90ae8b065ec3ae7c8f086
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- Birth of Noah · c. 2948 BC
- Lifetime of Noah · c. 2948 BC – 1998 BC
- Birth of Shem · c. 2446 BC
- God instructs Noah to build the ark · c. 2400 BC
- G-d makes a covenant with Noah · c. 2348 BC
- Noah's Flood · c. 2348 BC – 2347 BC
- The Great Flood · c. 2348 BC – 2347 BC
- The Great Flood begins · c. 2348 BC
- Water covers the earth · c. 2348 BC
- God makes a covenant with Noah · c. 2347 BC
- Leaving the Ark · c. 2347 BC
- The flood subsides · c. 2347 BC
- Noah gets drunk and Canaan is cursed · c. 2346 BC
- Death of Noah · c. 1998 BC
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Noah Article
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Noah was the son of Lamech, a descendant of Seth (Gen 5:29-30). He was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God (Gen 6:9). When God saw the wickedness of humanity, He chose Noah to build an ark to save his family and representatives of all animals from the coming flood (Gen 6:13-22). Noah obeyed God and built the ark, and he and his family entered it along with the animals (Genesis 7). After the flood, Noah built an altar and made sacrifices to God (Gen 8:20). God blessed Noah and his sons, establishing a covenant with them and setting the rainbow as a sign of His promise never to destroy the earth by flood again (Genesis 9). Noah lived for 950 years (Gen 9:29). He is remembered as an example of faith (Heb 11:7) and righteousness (Ezk.14.14, 20; 2Pe 2:5).
Noah Dictionary
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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)..
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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