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The name Noah appears twice in the English Bible, but in Hebrew these two names are totally different, and their meanings are exact opposites. The Noah mentioned in Num 26:33 (pronounced No'ah) is one of the many daughters of Zelophead (see for a treatment below). The Noah mentioned in Genesis (pronounced Noach, with a ch like Bach) is the main character of the great flood cycle, and father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.
The meaning of the flood of Noah is much contended and belief in a global flood has waned along with that in the young earth hypothesis. Here at Abarim Publications we don't believe in either, but that's not in subjection to the scientific record (which we nevertheless hold very dear, also for Theological reasons - Rom 1:20) but rather because we think that our Chaotic Set Theory follows the Biblical accounts much closer than any other exegetical theory offered. It seems to us that the great flood cycle serves in the Biblical story not as a report of a meteorological or judicial anomaly, but as point of symmetry breach between the animal and human mental realm. Jesus predicts that His second coming will be like the great flood event (Mat 24:37), and then too we will see a breach. Before the second coming all humans are pretty much alike (this is called a symmetry), but after the second coming there will be an undeniable difference between two kinds of humans (called a breach in symmetry). It seems to us that the 144,000 (Rev 7:4 & 14:1), who are able to learn a song that no one else can learn (14:3), and who separate from the great multitude which no one can count (Rev 7:9) strongly suggests that something like this has happened in the Noah cycle as well. What this symmetry breach entails becomes clear when Jesus states that before the flood, people 'knew not' (Mat 24:39). For more, click here.
The name Noah () comes from the verb  (nuah 1323) meaning rest, settle down. TWOTOT reports that this root 'signifies not only absence of movement but being settled in a particular place [] with overtones of finality, or [] victory, salvation etc.'
Derivatives of this root are:  (nahat 1323a), rest, quietness; (noah 1323b), the name Noah;  (nihoah 1323c), quieting, soothing;  (hanaha 1323d), a giving of rest;  (manoah 1323e), resting place;  (menuha 1323f), resting place, rest.
Another verb of interest is  (naha 1341), lead, guide, 'the conducting of one along the right path' (TWOTOT ).
The name Noah () means Rest. The competing lineage of Cain, ends up in the land of Nod (Restless Wandering).
The feminine name Noah (), according to BDB, comes from the verb  (nua' 1328), shake, rattle, stagger, wander. This verb refers to a repetitive moving to and fro, whether on a small scale (shake, sway) or large scale (stagger, wander). Probably the most endearing usage of this verb is in the description of the movement of Hannah's lips when she prayed (1 Sam 1:13). Rather grim is its role in Cain's curse: You shall be a vagabond ( ) and a fugitive (Gen 4:12). God exiles Cain to the land of Nod. The name Nod is derived from a verb that is often used as a parallel to the verb nua'.
This name Noah () means Shaky Girl or Lady Wanderer.
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