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Strong's numbers

נוּחַ (H5117)

nûwach

noo'-akh

a primitive root; 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.); cease, be confederate, lay, let down, (be) quiet, remain, (cause to, be at, give, have, make to) rest, set down. Compare יָנִים.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

נוּחַ vb. rest
Qal
1 rest, settle down and remain
2 repose, be quiet, have rest
Hiph.
A
1 cause to rest = give rest to
2 cause to rest (i.e. light) upon
B
1 lay or set down, deposit, let lie
2 let remain, leave (in present condition)
3 leave = depart from
4 abandon
5 let alone (refrain from interfering with)
6 permit
Hoph.
A no rest is granted to us
B as subst. = space left, open space

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.

64 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Isaiah 30:32
    And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
  • Isaiah 57:2
    He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
  • Isaiah 63:14
    As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
  • Lamentations 5:5
    Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
  • Ezekiel 5:13
    Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.
  • Ezekiel 16:42
    So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
  • Ezekiel 21:17
    I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
  • Ezekiel 24:13
    In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
  • Ezekiel 37:1
    The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
  • Ezekiel 40:2
    In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.