Enoch

Enoch (from Hebrew: חֲנוֹךְ, Modern H̱anokh Tiberian Ḥănôḵ; Greek: Ενώχ, Enōkh; Arabic Name: إينوخ Muslim usage; أخنوخ in Arab Christian usage) "initiated, dedicated, disciplined") is a Hebrew name. It may refer to:

Biblical occurrences

• Enoch (ancestor of Noah), the son of Jared, a great-grandfather of Noah, and father of Methuselah
• Enoch (son of Cain), son of Cain, after whom Cain named the first city he founded.
• Hanoch (Enoch), son of Reuben
• Hanoch (Enoch), one of the five sons of Midian
• Enos (Bible) (or Enosh), a grandson of Adam (Genesis 5:5-6), and great grandfather of Enoch (Genesis 5:18).

People

• Enoch Crosby (1750–1835), American soldier and spy during the Revolutionary War
• Enoch Hood (1861–1940), English footballer
• Enoch Light (1905–1978), American musician and producer
• Enoch Olinga (1926–1979), Ugandan missionary
• Enoch Powell (1912–1998), British politician
• Enoch Pratt (1808–1896), American businessman and philanthropist
• Enoch Showunmi (born 1982), British football player
• Enoch Sontonga (1873–1905), South African composer
• Enoch L. Johnson (1883–1968), Atlantic City, New Jersey political boss and racketeer

Fictional characters

• Enoch, main character in the video game, El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
• Enoch Cain, the sociopathic antagonist of Dean Koontz's suspense novel, From the Corner of His Eye
• Enoch Brae, main character in Restless (2011 film)
• Enoch Root, fictional character from Neal Stephenson's novels The Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon
• Enoch Soames, eponymous protagonist in an eponymous short story by Max Beerbohm
• Nucky Thompson, main character from the television series Boardwalk Empire
• Enoch Emery, character in Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood"
• Enoch Leng, uncle of agent Pendergast in the novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
• Enoch, fictional character in "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

Places

• Enoch, Utah, a small city in Iron County, USA
• Enoch Cree Nation, near Edmonton, Canada
• Enoch Lake, A small community near Lake Park, Georgia, USA

Other

• Enoch, a band later renamed P.O.D. (Payable on Death)
• "Enoch", a short story from the Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares collection by Robert Bloch
• "Enoch and the Gorilla", a short story from The Complete Stories (O'Connor) collection by Flannery O'Connor
• Enoch Linux, the original name of Gentoo Linux

See also

• Book of Enoch
• Enochian (disambiguation)
• Hanoch (disambiguation)
• Henoch (disambiguation)
• Chanoch (disambiguation)