《聖經．創世記》中的人物。諾亞是拉麥之子，爲亞當和夏娃的第九代子孫，行爲端正，蒙上帝選擇在他的邪惡的同代人於洪水中滅亡後使人類能繁衍下來。諾亞遵照指示建造一艘方舟，並依神諭收容每種動物各一對。洪水退去後，上帝以一道彩虹作爲不再毀滅大地的保證。他是閃、含和雅弗的父親，整個人類種族再由諾亞三子繁衍下來。諾亞也被傳說爲是葡萄園耕種的創始者。 Biblical character from Genesis. The son of Lamech and ninth in descent from Adam, he was a man of blameless piety, who was chosen by God to perpetuate the human race after his wicked contemporaries had perished in the flood. On God's instructions, Noah built an ark and took into it one male and one female of each of the world's animals. After the waters receded, God set a rainbow in the sky as a guarantee of his promise never again to curse the earth. Noah was the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, from whom the entire human race is supposed to have descended. Noah is also said to have been the originator of vineyard cultivation.
