Enoch
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- For the original Hebrew name, see Hanoch.
Enoch (from Hebrew: חֲנוֹךְ, Standard Khanokh Tiberian Ḥănôkh meaning "initiated, dedicated, disciplined"); Greek: ενωχ, Enôkh; traditional English: Enoch can refer to one of several people mentioned in the Hebrew Bible:
- Enoch, the son of Jared and father of Methuselah, a direct descendant of Adam through Seth and ancestor of Noah <ref>Genesis 5:18-24</ref>
- Enoch, son of Cain <ref>Genesis 4:17</ref>
- Cain also founded the first city and named it Enoch, after his son.
- Enoch, son of Reuben <ref>Genesis 46:9</ref>
- Enoch, one of the five sons of Midian <ref>I Chronicles 1:33</ref>
Note: Enoch is often confused with Enos.
[edit] Other people and things named Enoch:
- 1st Book of Enoch from the Apocrypha of the Old Testament.
- 2nd Book of Enoch from the Apocrypha of the Old Testament.
- 3rd Book of Enoch from the Apocrypha of the Old Testament.
- Enoch, a prophet in Islam, also known as Idris (Arabic: إدريس ).
- Enochian, the occult language and script.
- Enoch, a Star Trek villain in the episode Return to Tomorrow
- Enoch, in John Milton's Paradise Lost who is saved by God as his warring peers attempt to kill him
- Enoch, Katherine, extensively written about in A Cornish Shopkeeper's Diary 1843, R Glynn , as someone who loved a drink, leading to the authors expression of drunken abandonment 'I was enoched, not a muscle would move nor the gods awaken me.'
- Enoch Root, a recurring character in Neal Stephenson's novels Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle.
- Enoch Powell, right-wing British politician and Conservative Party MP.
- Enoch Linux, a Linux distribution developed by Daniel Robbins later renamed Gentoo Linux.
- Enoch Reserve, an aboriginal settlement located west of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
- Enoch, from His Dark Materials, the brother of Baruch and became an angel known as Metatron.
- Enoch, a human in Judaism and some branches of Christianity who was taken away from God and became known as the angel Metatron.
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