In Genesis, what was Noah’s wife called in the flood narrative?
Answer
She is not named
In Genesis, Noah’s wife is not named in the flood narrative.
Genesis refers to her simply as Noah’s wife when describing the people who enter the Ark. The passage names Noah’s sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—but does not provide a name for their mother or for the wives of the three sons.
Later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions supplied different names or identifications. One widely cited later Jewish tradition calls Noah’s wife Naamah, but that name comes from interpretive tradition rather than from the Genesis flood account itself. Other traditions use different names.
This distinction explains why “Naamah” is often given as an answer in discussions of Noah’s family, yet is not the canonical answer to what Genesis calls her. The biblical text leaves her unnamed.