Noa vs Noah

[Guido Del Re]

Numbers 27:1-8

(1) The daughters of Zelophehad, of Manassite family—son of Hepher son of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh son of Joseph—came forward. The names of the daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. (2) 

The translators of the italian catholic bible  use the name "Noa" (female) instead of "Noè/Noah" (male). I wonder if this could also be acceptable in English, in order to clarifiy the gender. Thank you.

Guido 

[Shmuel Weissman]

As far as the spelling goes, there's no standard way to distinguish between the two. Many translations indeed use "Noah" for both.

In speech though, the two are stressed differently, at least in Biblical Hebrew (male: NOah vs. female: NoAH).

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sefaria Project" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sefaria+u...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to sef...@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sefaria.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--

Shmuel Weissman

MANAGER of TEXT ACQUISITION & TEXT QUALITY

shm...@sefaria.org | sefaria.org

Learn with Sefaria? Donate to Sefaria.