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“This Son Shall Comfort Us”: An Onomastic Tale of Two Noahs - Matthew L. Bowen

February 03, 2017

From an etiological perspective, the Hebrew Bible connects the name Noah with two distinct but somewhat homonymous verbal roots: nwḥ (“rest”) and nḥm (“comfort,” “regret” [sometimes “repent”]). Significantly,