Is the name 'Noah' considered to be a Jewish name?

Question

I know the name is in the Old Testament, but Noah himself wasn't Jewish. He came before Moses.

Would someone called Noah be automatically recognized as Jewish?

When you hear that someone is called Mohammed, you'd probably guess he's a Muslim. When you hear Noah, do you think 'He must be Jewish'?

Answer 1

noah is a hebrew name, but there is more than one religion which uses the jewish scriptures and history, so it is a common name for jews, christians, and probably muslims as well but i don't know what the name noah would be in arabic. noah is actually a very appropriate name for non-jews since he is the father of all of humanity and because the covenant G-d has with the non-jews is made through noah.

Answer 2

Even though Noah was not Jewish, the name Noah is considered a Jewish name.

Answer 3

Well, it's a name from what Christians consider "The Old Testament", but then again, so are David, Isaiah, Solomon, Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, Jacob, etc.

Lots of Jewish people have these names, but so do lots of Gentiles.

Answer 4

Yes Hebrew, the name Noah means rest.

Noah
(1.) 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 (Mat_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” (Compare Eze_14:14, Eze_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 (Gen_6:18). He was accordingly commanded to build an ark (Gen_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 (Gen_6:3), during which Noah bore constant testimony against the unbelief and wickedness of that generation (1Pe_3:18-20; 2Pe_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” (2Pe_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, Gen_8:4); 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_8:6-14).
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” (Gen_9:28-29).

Answer 5

Um, yes of course. Noah was a Hebrew. Read the old testament.

Answer 6

No, becuase Moses was not a Jew. He wrote Genesis. Moses was a Levite. Not only that but Noah was a great great grandfather of Judah, the tribal name for the Jews

Answer 7

Noah lived before the jews and before Abraham the one whom all jews come from because the jews are mereldy decdntants of Judah, one of Abrahams sons.

Abraham became the father of the Isrealites or hebrews. all Jews are hebrews, but not all Hebrews are Jews.

Noah existed before the Hebrews existed.

Answer 8

Your problem slogging thru all those answers is confusion over the labels in your question. The name "Noah" is the Hebrew LANGUAGE but it existed before the Hebrew RELIGION. Therefore, it is "Hebrew" but not "Jewish."

Answer 9

Hebrew!
(Gen 5:28)
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From the verb NUAH= meaning rest,or settle down.And the verb=NAHA meaning to lead, or guide.

Answer 10

Religions seldom have claims on names - but it is a biblical name, and it is derived from Hebrew.