Enoch
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For Enoch from the bible, see Enoch (ancestor of Noah).
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Enoch (from Hebrew: חֲנוֹךְ, Modern Khanokh Tiberian Ḥănôkh; Greek: ενωχ, Enôkh; Arabic Name:اخنوخ, "initiated, dedicated, disciplined") is a Hebrew name.
Hanoch is related to the Hebrew word chinuch, meaning enlightenment, wisdom, spirituality.
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[edit] Biblical occurrences
The Bible has several occurrences of that name:
- Enoch, the son of Jared, a great-grandfather of Noah, and father of Methuselah (Genesis 5:1-18).[1]
- Enoch, son of Cain [2], after whom Cain named the first city he founded, is not the same Enoch son of Jared (Genesis 5:18).
- Hanoch (Enoch), son of Reuben [3]
- Hanoch (Enoch), one of the five sons of Midian [4]
Note: Enoch is often confused with Enos (or Enosh). Enos is recorded as a grandson of Adam (Genesis 5:5-6), and great grandfather of Enoch (Genesis 5:18).
- The only recorded words of Enoch, the son of Jared, surviving in the New Testament are his prophesying about men, whereby God shall be coming with His saints to judge and convict them (Jude 1:14-15). [5] The quotation is from 1Enoch 1:9 which is part of the pseudepigrapha and is also part of the Dead Sea Scrolls [4Q Enoch (4Q204[4QENAR]) COL I 16-18].[6]
[edit] People
Other people named Enoch include:
- Enoch Showunmi, British football player
- Enoch Arden, eponymous protagonist in a 1864 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Hanoch Bartov (born 1926), Israeli author
- Shalom Hanoch, Israeli singer, composer and lyricist
- Eduard Heinrich Henoch (1820–1910), German physician
- Enoch Hood (1861-1940), English footballer
- Hanoch Levin (1943–1999), Israeli writer
- Henoch Leibowitz, American rabbi
- Maxim Litvinov (born Meir Henoch Mojszewicz Wallach-Finkelstein) (1876–1951), Russian revolutionary and diplomat
- Moses ben Hanoch (died c. 965), Babylonian-born Spanish rabbi
- Chanoch Nissany (born 1963), Israeli-born Hungarian racing driver
- Enoch Powell (1912-1998), conservative British politician
- Enoch Pratt, 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland (USA) businessman and philanthropist
[edit] Places
- Mt. Enoch, Victoria, Australia
- Enoch, the First City in the Vampire series
- Enoch, the name of a city in several of Samuel R. Delany's works, including the Return to Nevèrÿon series and The Mad Man
- Enoch, Utah, a small town north of Cedar City
- St. Enoch Square, Glasgow, Scotland, is from a corruption of St Thenew, mother of St Kentigern of Glasgow Cathedral
[edit] Other occurences
- The Three Books of Enoch, three separate texts that are named after the biblical prophet, Enoch. 1 Enoch and 2 Enoch purport to have been written by him.
- Enochian, an occult language and script
- Enoch Linux, a Linux distribution later renamed Gentoo Linux
- U. S. President Calvin Coolidge owned a goose named Enoch
- Henoch-Schönlein purpura, a disease
[edit] References
- ^ Genesis 5:18-24
- ^ Genesis 4:17
- ^ Genesis 46:9
- ^ I Chronicles 1:33
- ^ Jude 1:14-15
- ^ Clontz, T.E. and J., "The Comprehensive New Testament with complete textual variant mapping and references for the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, Josephus, Nag Hammadi Library, Pseudepigrapha, Apocrypha, Plato, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Talmud, Old Testament, Patristic Writings, Dhammapada, Tacitus, Epic of Gilgamesh", Cornerstone Publications, 2008, p. 711, ISBN 978-0-977873-71-5
