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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 . Narrative. After Cain arrived in the Land of Nod, to which he was evicted by God as his punishment for murdering his own brother Abel, his wife became pregnant and bore Cain's first child, whom he named Enoch.
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Enoch (/ ˈ iː n ə k / ⓘ) is a biblical figure and patriarch prior to Noah's flood, and the son of Jared and father of Methuselah. He was of the Antediluvian period in the Hebrew Bible. The text of the Book of Genesis says Enoch lived 365 years before he was taken by God.
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Cain is described as a city-builder, and the forefather of tent-dwelling pastoralists, all lyre and pipe players, and bronze and iron smiths. In an alternate translation of Genesis 4:17, endorsed by a minority of modern commentators, Cain's son Enoch builds a city and names it after his son, Irad.
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 ...
May 14, 2018 · ENOCH. The son of Cain and the father of Irad, according to the yahwist genealogy in Gn 4.17 – 24. The purpose of this genealogy is to depict the increase of sin and violence in the world from Cain to Lamech (Gn 4.8, 23 – 24) that came as a result of the Fall (Gn ch. 3).
Sep 16, 2021 · Definition. by Rebecca Denova. published on 16 September 2021. Available in other languages: French. Enoch Being Taken to Heaven by God. Albertus Pictor (CC BY) In the book of Genesis in the pre-flood period, Enoch was the son of Jared and the father of Methuselah. There are few details about Enoch.
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.
