נוּחַ
nûwach · H5118 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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resting place
A place of rest after a time of activity
Examples2 Chronicles 6:41 “Now then arise, LORD God, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your might; let Your priests, LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let Your godly ones rejoice in what is good.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךָyour 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- שַׁלְוָה shalvâh · H7962 · ease, peace, complacence
- Hebrew noun denoting state of ease, quietness, or security, conceptually overlapping with rest but emphasizing tranquility rather than cessation of motion
Contrasting words 2 words
- מְהוּמָה mᵉhûwmâh · H4103 · consternation
- Hebrew noun denoting disturbance, confusion, or tumult; lexically opposite to rest as disorder vs. tranquility
- רָגַז râgaz · H7264 · to tremble, to shake, to quake
- Hebrew verb denoting trembling, agitation, or disturbance; lexically opposite to rest as motion/agitation vs. stillness
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἀνάπαυσις anápausis · G372 · to cease, to stop, rest
- Greek noun for rest/resting place, standard translation equivalent for Hebrew rest terminology in LXX contexts
- κατάπαυσις katápausis · G2663 · to rest, to cease from work
- Greek noun for rest/resting place, frequently used in LXX to translate Hebrew rest vocabulary, particularly in spatial contexts
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Space002002001017
- נוּחַ, "resting place," its sole occurrence at 1 Kings 6:10 describing the chambers built adjoining the temple, ties the word to a physical location associated with rest or settled habitation.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5118. nuach or noach
or noach
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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