Genesis 8:18

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

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נֹ֑חַ

Nôach

H5146

“Noah”

Noun, Proper

Appears 46× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 5:29

Full BDB Definition

Origin: the same as H5118

TWOT: 1323b

Noah = "rest" - son of Lamech, father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth; builder of the ark which saved his family from the destruction of the world which God sent on the world by the flood; became the new seminal head of mankind because his family were the only survivors of the flood

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

7: words
5: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

נֹ֑חַ Noah H5146 occurs in 39 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
5 nouns
1 preposition

Verb forms

וַיֵּ֖צֵא Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וּבָנָ֛יו son H1121 ×2
וְאִשְׁתּ֥וֹ woman H802 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 16 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Genesis 8:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Psalms 121:8 Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, From this time forth, and forevermore.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew Genesis 8:18 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֵּ֖צֵא נֹ֑חַ וּבָנָ֛יו וְאִשְׁתּ֥וֹ וּנְשֵֽׁי בָנָ֖יו אִתּֽוֹ

Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 8:18 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἐκἔρχομαι νωε καί ὁ γυνή αὐτός καί ὁ υἱός αὐτός καί ὁ γυνή ὁ υἱός αὐτός μετά αὐτός

And Noe came forth, and his wife and his sons, and his sons' wives with him.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וּנְפַק נֹחַ וּבְנוֹהִי וְאִתְּתֵהּ וּנְשֵׁי בְנוֹהִי עִמֵּהּ

And Noach went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him;

Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וּנְפַק נחַ וּבְנוֹי וְאִנְתְּתֵיהּ וּנְשֵׁי בְנוֹי עִמֵיהּ

And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and the wives of his sons, with him.

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Genesis 8:18 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Gen 8:18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:

Ver. 18. And Noah went forth.] In obedience to the divine command. Yεω επου, "follow God," was the old and good rule. {See Trapp on "Gen 8:16"}

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth,.... All went out, not one was left, and they went out

after their kind; not in a confused disorderly manner, mixing with one another; but as they went in by pairs, male and female of every sort, so they came forth in like manner, or, "according to their families" (c); by which it seems as if the creatures did breed in the ark, and had their families of young ones; and which is the sense of some in Aben Ezra, and he himself thinks it not foreign, though he interprets it as we do, and as the Greek version does, "after their kind": thus they

went forth out of the ark; everyone with his mate, in order to procreate and multiply upon the earth.

(c) "juxta familias suas", Tigurine version, Pagninus, Montanus, &c.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

Noah went out

Some translations read "Noah came out." (See: Go and Come)

according to their families

"in groups of their own kinds"

translationWords

Noah

ark

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Radak

Rabbi David Kimhi (Radak)

ויצא נח, the fact that the Torah, in this verse, separates the females from the males, may hint that the females were afraid to leave the ark until after the males had left and assured themselves and them that it was possible again to live outside the ark.

Radak on the Tanakh — English translations: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash” (CC BY 4.0); “Rabbi Mike Feuer, Jerusalem Anthology” (CC BY 4.0); and “R. David Kimhi on the first book of Psalms, Translated by R.G. Finch, London, 1919” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 7 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Nôach (“Noah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Nôach carries the sense “Noah.” How does it shape the verse?
How does Genesis 5:29, which shares the word «Noah», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “son” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«וַיֵּ֖צֵא» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
“son” occurs 2× in this single verse.
5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.