biography
pronunciation:
[nohuh]
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| Biblical character, depicted as the son of Lamech. He is described as a ‘righteous man’ who was given divine instruction to build an ark in which he, his immediate family, and a selection of animals were saved from a widespread flood over the Earth (Gen 6–9). In the Table of Nations (Gen 10), Noah's sons (Japheth, Ham, and Shem) are depicted as the ancestors of all the nations on Earth. A similar flood legend was told of a Babylonian character, Utanapishtim, in the Gilgamesh epic. |
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