Enoch

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Enoch
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See Enoch (ancestor of Noah) for more detailed information on the biblical Enoch.

Enoch (from Hebrew: חֲנוֹךְ, Standard Khanokh Tiberian Ḥănôkh; Ashkenazi, Jiddish: 'jHenosch' Greek: ενωχ, Enôkh; Arabic Name:إدريس, "initiated, dedicated, disciplined") is a Hebrew name.

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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] It is stated in numerous Jewish, early Christian, and mediaeval Muslim sources, that he was taken away by God because he was a good 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: إدريس ). Because he never died he is older than Methuselah who died at 969 years and Enoch is over 5,000 years old. According to Muslim scholars[who?] he earned his livelihood as a tailor and is also considered to be the inventor of the eyed metal needle used in sewing. He is the protagonist of the several apocryphal books of the Old Testament:
  • 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).

[edit] People

Other people named Enoch include:

[edit] Fictional characters

  • Enoch Hopper, highly-strung boy in Ithaca, California, from The Human Comedy by William Saroyan
  • Enoch Root, a recurring character in Neal Stephenson's novels Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle
  • Hanoch, a villain in the Star Trek episode "Return to Tomorrow"
  • Enoch, the leader of a fictional criminal organization in the animated series, Ben 10

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[edit] 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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