Enoch 3170010 225672478 2008-07-14T20:55:29Z Gary King 118799 for template {{Infobox Given Name Revised | name = Enoch | image= | imagesize= | caption= | pronunciation= | gender = Male | meaning = | region = | origin = | related names = | footnotes = }} {{for|Enoch from the bible|Enoch (ancestor of Noah)}} '''Enoch''' (from {{Hebrew Name|חֲנוֹךְ|Khanokh|Ḥănôkh}}; [[Ashkenazi]], [[Jiddish]]: ''''jHenosch'''' [[Koine Greek|Greek]]: ενωχ, ''{{unicode|Enôkh}}''; [[Arabic Name]]:إدريس, "initiated, dedicated, disciplined") is a Hebrew name. ==Biblical occurrences== The [[Bible]] has several occurrences of that name: *[[Enoch (ancestor of Noah)|Enoch]], the son of [[Jared (ancestor of Noah)|Jared]], a great-grandfather of [[Noah]], and father of [[Methuselah]] (Genesis 5:1-18).<ref>{{bibleverse-lb||Genesis|5:18-24|HE}}</ref> It is stated in numerous Jewish, early Christian, and mediaeval Muslim sources, that he was taken away by God because he was a good man, thus avoiding death at the age of 365, and according to a few [[Kabbalistic]] sources, became known as the angel [[Metatron]]. He is also identified as the apostle [[Idris (prophet)|Idris]] (Arabic: إدريس ). The only recorded words of Enoch surviving in the European Bible are his prophesying about men, whereby God shall be coming with His saints to judge and convict them (Jude 1:14-15). <ref>{{bibleverse-lb||Jude|1:14-15|}}</ref> As he never physically died, Enoch is older than [[Methuselah]] (who died at 969 years) and is over 5,000 years old. According to some Muslim scholars{{weasel word}}, he earned his livelihood as a tailor and is also considered to be the inventor of the eyed metal needle used in sewing. He is the protagonist of several [[apocrypha|apocryphal]] books of the Old Testament: **[[1 Enoch|1st Book of Enoch]], an apocryphal book in the [[Ethiopian Orthodox|Ethiopic]] Bible. **[[2 Enoch|2nd Book of Enoch]], an apocryphal book in the Old Slavonic Bible. **[[3 Enoch|3rd Book of Enoch]], a Kabbalistic Rabbinic text in Hebrew, attributed to Kohen Gadol Yishmael (90-135 AD). *Enoch, son of [[Cain]] <ref>{{bibleverse-lb||Genesis|4:17|HE}}</ref>, 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]] <ref>{{bibleverse-lb||Genesis|46:9|HE}}</ref> *Hanoch (Enoch), one of the five sons of [[Midian]] <ref>{{bibleverse-lb|I|Chronicles|1:33|HE}}</ref> Note: Enoch is often confused with [[Enos (Bible)|Enos]] (or Enosh). Enos is recorded as a grandson of Adam (Genesis 5:5-6), and great grandfather of Enoch (Genesis 5:18). ==People== Other people named Enoch include: * [[Enoch Adeboye]], General Overseer, Reedeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) * [[Enoch Showunmi]], British football player * [[Enoch Arden]], eponymous protagonist in a 1864 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson * [[Hanoch Bartov]] (born 1926), Israeli author * [[Shalom Hanoch]], Israeli singer, composer and lyricist * [[Eduard Heinrich Henoch]] (1820–1910), German physician * [[Hanoch Levin]] (1943–1999), Israeli writer * [[Henoch Leibowitz]], American rabbi * [[Maxim Litvinov|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 * [[Chanoch Henech Sufrin]], Director of the Jewish Educational Institute - Chabad Brisbane<ref>www.ChabadBrisbane.com</ref>, in Brisbane, Queensland (QLD) Australia. Enoch walked with God ==Fictional characters== * Enoch Hopper, highly-strung boy in Ithaca, California, from ''[[The Human Comedy]]'' by William Saroyan * [[Enoch Root]], a recurring character in Neal Stephenson's novels ''Cryptonomicon'' and ''The Baroque Cycle'' * Hanoch, a villain in the ''Star Trek'' episode "[[Return to Tomorrow]]" *[[List of villains in Ben 10#Enoch and the Forever Knights|Enoch]], the leader of a fictional criminal organization in the animated series, ''Ben 10'' * Enoch Emery appears in [[The Peeler]] by Flannery O'Connor. A character also named Enoch (last name not described) also appears in Flannery O'Connor's [[Enoch and the Gorilla]] * Enoch Snow, a supporting lead role in Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "Carousel" ==Places== *[[Enoch Reserve]], an aboriginal settlement located west of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada *[[Enoch, Utah]], a small town north of Cedar City *Enoch, the name of a city in several of [[Samuel R. Delany]]'s works, including the [[Return to Nevèrÿon (series)|Return to Nevèrÿon]] series and [[The Mad Man]] *St. Enoch Square, [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]], is from a corruption of St Thenew, mother of St [[Kentigern]] of [[Glasgow Cathedral]] ==Other occurences== *[[Enochian]], an occult language and script *[[Katherine Enoch]], extensively written about in ''A Cornish Shopkeeper's Diary'' (R Glynn, 1843) as someone who loved a drink, leading to the author's expression of drunken abandonment 'I was enoched, not a muscle would move nor the gods awaken me.' *[[Enoch Linux]], a Linux distribution later renamed [[Gentoo Linux]] *U. S. President [[Calvin Coolidge]] owned a goose named Enoch *[[Henoch-Schönlein purpura]], a disease {{hndis|name=Enoch}} ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Surnames]] [[Category:Given names]] [[he:חנוך (פירושונים)]] [[pt:Enoque]] [[ru:Енох]] [[fi:Hanok]]