Noah's flood
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- noun
- /ˈnoʊəz flʌd/
- Literature
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el Diluvio de Noé
- They are reluctant to accept various biblical episodes—such as the creation of the world in seven days, the Garden of Eden, and Noah's flood—as literal narrative.
Examples
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They do, in fact, teach that the Ice Age followed Noah's flood.
Blog text (9) -
According to the Bible, Noah's flood was a divine event meant to cleanse the earth of human wickedness.
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And from Adam to Noah's flood, there were 1,656 years.
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It has been 4,468 years since Noah's flood.
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In the Book of Genesis, the bishop comments on the sad story of the "sons of God" marrying nonbelieving women in the days before Noah's flood, and finds this a warning against religiously mixed marriages.
Academic text (2006) -
At midcentury, Charles Darwin's ideas of natural selection would challenge the idea that species were never changing and undermine the biblical account of Noah's flood and the belief that fossils (including those of giants) were evidence of life forms obliterated by that flood.
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Many cultures have stories similar to Noah's flood, illustrating a common theme of divine judgment.
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Scholars debate the historical accuracy of Noah's flood and its impact on ancient societies.
Synonyms
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8.2
A great covering of water God sent in the Bible to destroy life, saving Noah and animals in an ark
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A Bible story of a great flood sent by God that Noah survives with his family in a large boat
A great flood in the Bible during Noah's time
Surface Forms
Morphology
Noah's + flood
The phrase is compositionally ‘the flood belonging to Noah’ — combining the proper name Noah with the noun flood directly points to the biblical deluge. It is referential rather than idiomatic, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents (especially that Noah is the biblical figure) can infer the intended meaning without knowing the phrase as a fixed idiom.
Etymology
Noah's flood comes from the Bible story of Noah, who built an ark when God sent a huge flood to cover the whole world and save Noah's family and the animals. That's why people call a very big or overwhelming flood a 'Noah's flood'.