Bible word study

Nuwach (Strong’s H5117): Meaning in the Bible

Nuwach (נוּחַ) is the Hebrew word numbered H5117 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to rest, i.e. settle down; used in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, intransitive, transitive and causative (to dwell, stay, let fall, place, let alone, withdraw, give comfort, etc.). In the King James Bible it is translated cease, be confederate, lay, let down, (be) quiet.

• Original wordנוּחַ
• Transliterationnûwach
• Pronunciationnoo'-akh
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH5117
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Nuwach appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Nuwach (H5117) stands behind 65 English renderings in 64 verses across 23 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Isaiah (11), Joshua (7), Ezekiel (7).

How the King James Bible renders Nuwach, by count

• rest46 of 65 (71 percent)
• rested7 of 65 (11 percent)
• down2 of 65 (3 percent)
• resteth2 of 65 (3 percent)
• ceased1 of 65 (2 percent)
• confederate1 of 65 (2 percent)

Three places to read Nuwach

• Genesis 8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
• 2 Samuel 7:11 And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
• Isaiah 7:2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Nuwach in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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