Enoch
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This article is about the name Enoch. For Enoch from the bible, see Enoch (Biblical figure). For other uses, see Enoch (disambiguation).
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Enoch (from Hebrew: חֲנוֹךְ, Modern H̱anokh Tiberian Ḥănôḵ; Greek: Ενώχ, Enōkh; Arabic Name:إينوخ, "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] Also 1Chron.1:3. He is also represented in the Book of Enoch, which formed part of the Dead Sea Scrolls collection and presents itself as being written by Enoch himself. And in the New Testament; Luke 3:37, Heb.11:5, Jude 1:14.
- Enoch, son of Cain [2], after whom Cain named the first city he founded.
- Hanoch (Enoch), son of Reuben [3]
- Hanoch (Enoch), one of the five sons of Midian [4]
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).
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Other people named Enoch include:
- 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
[edit] Fictional characters
- Enoch Soames, eponymous protagonist in a short story by Max Beerbohm
- Enoch Root, fictional character from Neal Stephenson's novels The Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon
- Character in "Enoch", a short story from the Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares collection by Robert Bloch
- Character in "Enoch and the Gorilla", a short story from Flannery O'Connor The Complete Stories (O'Connor) 1971
- Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, main character from the television series Boardwalk Empire
[edit] See also
For people with the name Chanoch, see Chanoch (disambiguation).
For people with the name Hanoch, see Hanoch (disambiguation).
For people with the name Henoch, see Henoch (disambiguation).
- Henoch–Schönlein purpura - a disease named after Eduard Heinrich Henoch (1820–1910), a German pediatrician, and his teacher Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793–1864), who described it in the 1860s.
[edit] Software
- Enoch Linux, the original name of Gentoo Linux
[edit] Places
- Enoch, Utah, a small city in Iron County, USA
- Enoch Cree Nation, near Edmonton, Canada
- Enoch, fictional town in the Return to Nevèrÿon series by Samuel R. Delany
