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Noah
Definitions
- 1 A figure in Abrahamic religions, believed to have built an ark to save his family and members of each species of animal from the Great Flood.
"Now, on the night the baby Lord Jesus was born in that stable in Bethlehem, several came to bow down to him and his mother the lady Mary. They were three powerful warlords known as the Magi who brought many fine gifts. And still another, a wonderful man, a sea captain named Noah came to visit Jesus. His ship was called Noah's Ark. The Lord Jesus liked this Noah for he was a wise man, especially in the ways of animals whom he often took sailing in his Ark. This man, Noah was born long before the Lord Jesus but men in those days lived to be very old. So, no one can be sure, no one at all, that Noah did not visit Jesus in that stable in Bethlehem."
- 2 A female given name. rare
- 3 A male given name from Hebrew.
"Easy to account for those trends - but what of post-Vietnam America and its generation of little Noahs? Were we expecting a flood momentarily?"
- 4 A surname.
- 5 The 71st sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
- 1 Clipping of Noah's ark; shark. Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
"I pulled the line in. There was a head on the end. That′s all – just the fish′s head, the body had been bitten off. Then Team-man pulled in a head. So did the old man. ‘Noahs. That′s the end of that,’ said the old man. ‘Looks like we′re going anyway.’"
Etymology
From Biblical Hebrew נֹחַ (nóakh, nṓaḥ).
From Biblical Hebrew נֹעָה (no`áh).
Abbreviation of Australian rhyming slang Noah's ark (“shark”).
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