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Enoch (from ; Ashkenazi, Jiddish: 'jHenosch' Greek: e???, ; Arabic Name:?????, "initiated, dedicated, disciplined") is a Hebrew name.
Hanoch is related to the Hebrew word chinuch, meaning enlightenment, wisdom, spirituality.
: 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).
h, the son of Jared, is the protagonist of several apocryphal books of the Old Testament:
s stated in numerous Jewish, early Christian, and medieval Muslim sources, that Enoch, the son of Jared, was taken away by God because he was obedient to God and a just man, thus avoiding death at the age of 365, and according to a few Kabbalistic sources, became known as the angel Metatron.
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Enoch (from ; Ashkenazi, Jiddish: 'jHenosch' Greek: e???, ; Arabic Name:?????, "initiated, dedicated, disciplined") is a Hebrew name.
Hanoch is related to the Hebrew word chinuch, meaning enlightenment, wisdom, spirituality.
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).
- Enoch, son of Cain , 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
- Hanoch (Enoch), one of the five sons of Midian
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).
Occurrences in apocryphal books of the Old Testament
Enoch, the son of Jared, is the protagonist of several apocryphal books of the Old Testament:
- 1st Book of Enoch, an apocryphal book in the Ethiopic Bible.
- 2nd Book of Enoch, an apocryphal book in the Old Slavonic Bible.
- 3rd Book of Enoch, a Kabbalistic Rabbinic text in Hebrew, attributed to Kohen Gadol Yishmael (90-135 AD) but usually dated the fifth century AD.
Occurrences in Jewish, early Christian, and medieval Muslim sources
It is stated in numerous Jewish, early Christian, and medieval Muslim sources, that Enoch, the son of Jared, was taken away by God because he was obedient to God and a just man, thus avoiding death at the age of 365, and according to a few Kabbalistic sources, became known as the angel Metatron. He is also identified as the apostle Idris (Arabic: ????? ).
He is honored as the inventor of sewing in Muslim tradition.
Occurrences in Latter-day Saint's books
In Joseph Smith, Jr.'s Book of Moses, which the LDS church believes to be a translation of the original text of the bible given to Moses, the material in the first two books of Enoch is greatly amplified. These amplifications include prophecies of the coming of Jesus (Moses 6:57), the baptism of Adam by the Spirit of the Lord, and the translation of the City of Zion and Enoch without tasting death (Moses6&7), as well as an extensive cosmic apocalypse. :21 – 8:19
Occurrences in Midrash texts
Two people named Enoch appear in one of the midrash versions of The Book of Jasher, an English translation in the Harvard Divinity School's collection. The Harvard book purports to have been made from a Hebrew manuscript, Sefer haYashar. The first Enoch is the son of Cain and his wife, born after Can slew Abel. The Lord had punished Cain by condemning him to wander the earth, but when the curse of the the Lord was lifted, Cain was allowed to build a city, which he also called Enoch, after his son. (Jasher 2:34-36)
The second Enoch in the Book of Jasher was a descendant of the first, and descended from Seth as well as from Cain. (Jasher 2:37) This Enoch was the father of Methuselah, and was reputed to be so wise that a hundred and thirty kings and princes "required of Enoch that he reign over them, to which he consented."(Jasher 3:9) The Harvard Book of Jasher relates that the year Adam died, Enoch decided to live apart from other people. He appeared once a week, then once a month, then once a year, teaching his subjects about the ways of God. When it came time for his ascension into Heaven, he did not die. A horse descended from Heaven, paced in the air, and for seven days Enoch rode the horse. On the seventh day, Enoch and the horse were taken up into heaven in a whirlwind, with other horses and chariots of fire.(Jasher 3:17-36) Enoch inherited the garments of skin that God had made for Adam and Eve when they were banished from Eden. Before he was taken up to heaven, he gave the skin garments to his son, Methuselah, who in turn gave them to Methuselah's grandson, Noah, so that they would be kept safe from the flood.(Jasher 7:25)
People
Other people named Enoch include:
- Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer, Reedeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG)
- 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
- Chanoch Henech Sufrin, Director of the Jewish Educational Institute - , in Brisbane, Queensland (QLD) Australia.
- Enock, Eritrean Christian rapper and song writer (Seven Days, Lets Get a Grip - )
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 Nevčr˙on series and The Mad Man
- Enoch Reserve, an aboriginal settlement located west of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- 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
Other occurences
- Enochian, an occult language and script
- Katherine Enoch, extensively written about in A Cornish Shopkeeper's Diary (R Glynn, 1843) as someone who loved a drink, leading to the author's expression of drunken abandonment 'I was enoched, not a muscle would move nor the gods awaken me.'
- Enoch Linux, a Linux distribution later renamed Gentoo Linux
- U. S. President Calvin Coolidge owned a goose named Enoch
- Henoch-Schönlein purpura, a disease
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