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Enoch (from Hebrew:
חֲנוֹךְ, Modern Khanokh Tiberian Ḥănôkh; Greek: Ενώχ, Enôkh; Arabic Name:اخنوخ,
"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).[1] Also
1Chron.1:3, Luke 3:37, Heb.11:5.
- 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 words attributed to "Enoch, the Seventh from Adam" in the
New Testament
are those prophesying to (Greek dative) ungodly
men, that God shall come with His holy ones to judge and convict
them (Jude 1:14-15).[5] The
quotation is from 1Enoch 1:9 which exists in Greek, in
Ethiopic, as part of the Ethiopian Orthodox canon, and also in
Aramaic among the Dead Sea
Scrolls[6]. Some
scholars believe that 1En 1:9 is a midrash of the words of
Moses "he came from the ten thousands of holy ones" from
Deuteronomy 33:2.[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] The
phrase "Enoch, the Seventh from Adam" is itself found in 1Enoch (1
En 60:8), rather than anywhere in the Old Testament. However, Jude
says that "Enoch, the Seventh from Adam" prophesied to (not
concerning) the false teachers.
Islam
In the Quran, Enoch is referred to as Idrees. The Quran contains
two references to Enoch; in Surah Al-Anbiya (The Prophets) verse number 85, and
in Surah Maryam
(Mary) verse number 56.
People
Other people named Enoch include:
- Enoch Arden,
eponymous protagonist in a 1864 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Hanoch
Bartov (born 1926), Israeli author
- Enoch Crosby
(1750-1835), American soldier and spy during the Revolutionary
War.
- 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
- Enoch Root, a
fictional character from Neal Stephenson's novels The Baroque Cycle
and Cryptonomicon.
- Henoch Rus, an active Bundist who died
in the Holocaust.
- Shalom
Hanoch, Israeli singer, composer and lyricist
- Enoch
Sontonga
- Enoch
Showunmi, British football player
- Enoch Soames,
eponymous protagonist in a short story by Max Beerbohm.
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
- Enochmagazine.com
Other
occurrences
References
- ^
Genesis 5:18-24
- ^
Genesis 4:17
- ^
Genesis 46:9
- ^
I
Chronicles 1:33
- ^
Jude 1:14-15
- ^
4Q Enoch (4Q204[4QENAR]) COL I 16-18
- ^
"The initial oracle in chapters 1-5 is a paraphrase of part of
Deuteronomy 33,24" George W. E. Nickelsburg, The nature and
function of revelation 1 Enoch, Jubilees and some Qumranic
documents, 1997
- ^
Lars Hartman, Asking for a Meaning: A Study of 1 Enoch 1-5 ConBib
NT Series 12 Lund Gleerup, 1979 22-26.
- ^
George WE Nickelsburg & James C Vanderkam, 1 Enoch, Fortress
2001
- ^
R.H. Charles, The Book of Enoch, London SPCK, 1917
- ^
E. Isaac, 1 Enoch, a new Translation and Introduction in Old
Testament Pseudepigrapha ed. Charlesworth, Doubleday 1983-85
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