Noah

(noah.) (Script.) An eminent patriarch, the ninth in descent after Adam, B. abt. 2950 B. c. He was 600 years old when the grand Deluge destroyed all the human race except him and his family, who were saved in the Ark (Gen. vii., viii., ix.), and entered into a new and everlasting covenant. D. at the age of 950. [s. 648]