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Enoch (son of Cain) Depiction of Cain establishing the city of Enoch, by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Enoch ( / ˈiːnək /; Hebrew: חֲנוֹךְ; Ḥănōḵ) is a person in the Book of Genesis. He is described as a son of Cain, and father of Irad .
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Enoch. 1. A son of Cain, in honor of whom the first city named in the Bible was called Enoch, Genesis 4:17. 2. "The seventh from Adam," and the father of Methuselah; eminent as a patriarch who lived near to God, through faith in a Redeemer to come, Hebrews 11:5,13. It was a testimony to his rare piety in an ungodly age that he was translated ...
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Genesis 4:17,18. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch: and he built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. Nave's Topical Index. Library. The Pentateuch. ... It is the oldest record in existence, and its contents ... to the Septuagint, no patriarch.
e'-nok (chanokh, "initiated"; Henoch): (1) The eldest son of Cain ( Genesis 4:17,18 ). (2) The son of Jared and father of Methuselah, seventh in descent from Adam in the line of Seth ( Jude 1:14 ). He is said ( Genesis 5:23) to have lived 365 years, but the brief record of his life is comprised in the words, "Enoch walked with God:
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Genesis, in listing the descendants of Adam until Noah and his sons, mentions Enoch, the seventh, in ways distinct from the others: Enoch "walked with God"; he lived only 365 years, a considerably shorter time than the others; and at the end of his life he "was no more, for God took him" (Gn. 5:21–24). Modern scholars agree that a fuller tradition ...
The Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Bible, c. 250 bce), Ben Sira (c. 190 bce), and the Jewish Antiquities by Josephus Flavius (37/8–c. 100 ce) all state that Enoch was taken by or returned to the deity. The Wisdom of Solomon (first century bce) explains that God prematurely terminated Enoch's life on earth so that wickedness would not infe...
For more than a century, scholars have argued that the biblical Enoch has his roots in Mesopotamian lore about similar antediluvian figures, and that the likenesses between Enoch and such figures reemerge in the depictions of Enoch in Jewish literature of Hellenistic times. Such parallels have most frequently been drawn with the seventh (or sixth o...
The church fathers exhibit considerable interest in Enoch's transcendence of death as a paradigm for Jesus and the Christian elect. However, some stress that it was only with Jesus' resurrection that Enoch's ascension was consummated. In the second and third centuries, Christian writers (among them, Tertullian and Irenaeus) place particular emphasi...
Rabbinic exegesis is concerned less with Enoch's righteousness during life, questioned by some early rabbis, than with the nature of his end. The main issue of dispute is whether he died like other righteous people, his soul returning to God, or whether he was transported, body and soul (like Elijah), to heaven or paradise. Some rabbinical circles,...
In the Qurʾān (19:57–58, 21:85), Idrīs is said to have been an "upright man and a prophet," who was "raised to a high place." While Idrīs's identity within the Qurʾān is uncertain, Muslim writers, drawing upon Jewish sources that venerate him, have regularly identified him with Enoch (Arab., Akhnūkh). He is said to have introduced several sciences ...
There is no comprehensive work on the figure of Enoch in biblical and postbiblical religious traditions. For a thorough treatment of the biblical, Mesopotamian, and apocalyptic sources, see James C. Vanderkam's Enoch and the Growth of an Apocalyptic Tradition, "Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series," no. 18 (Washington, D.C., 1984). For a pa...
Enoch is a figure in the Hebrew Bible and a patriarch who lived before Noah's flood. He is the son of Jared, the father of Methuselah, and most importantly, the great-grandfather of the great Noah. Enoch was born in 622 AM on Babylon, because he lived before the flood, he is from the Antediluvian period in the Hebrew Bible.
Enoch. There are two people named Enoch mentioned in the book of Genesis. The son of Cain, and after whom was named a city. He sired Irad. ( Genesis 4:16-18) The son of Jared, descendent of Seth. During his three-hundred sixty-fifth year he was taken by God into heaven. He was the father of Methuselah.
