נוח II

נוֹחַII m., נוֹחָה f. (preced. wds.) 1) pleasing, kind. Ab. III, 12 הוי קל לראש ונ׳ לתשחורת be quick (to serve) to thy superior, and kind to youth; Y.Taan.II, 65b bot. ונ׳ תשח׳ (corr. acc.). 2) easy. Gen. R. s. 17 מפני מה האיש נ׳ להתפתותוכ׳ why is man easily pacified, and woman not? Ab. V, 11 נ׳ לכעוס ונ׳וכ׳ easily angered and easily reconciled, opp. קשה. Yalk. Deut. 845 נֹחַ לקנות שונאוכ׳ it is easy to acquire an enemy, but hard to acquire a friend; נח לעלות לבימהוכ׳ it is easy to be brought up to the platform of the court, but hard to come down (be acquitted); a. fr.Pl. נוֹחִים, נוֹחוֹת, נֹח׳. Gen. R. s. 90 ונח׳; Yalk. ib. 148 ונוח׳, v. יָפַע. 3) נ׳ לו it is good (better) for. Erub.13b נ׳ לו לאדם שלא נברא יותרוכ׳ it would have been better for man not to have been born at all than Sabb.56b נ׳ לו לאותו … ואלוכ׳ it would have been better for that pious man, had he been a slave in an idolatrous temple, only that it might not be written about him ; a. fr.