Enoch

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Enoch (from Hebrew: חֲנוֹךְ, Standard Khanokh Tiberian Ḥănôkh meaning "initiated, dedicated, disciplined"; Greek: ενωχ, Enôkh; traditional English: Enoch) is a Hebrew name. It is assumed that the first notable usage of the name Enoch was in reference to the biblical Enoch, and that many of the subsequent notable Enochs were most likely named drawing from this same etymology.

Contents 1 Biblical occurrences 2 People (outside the Bible) 3 Places 4 Places - German Literature 5 Other occurences 6 References

[edit] Biblical occurrences

The Bible has several occurrences of that name:

• Enoch, the son of Jared and father of Methuselah, a descendant of Adam through Seth and ancestor of Noah ^[1]. He is believed to be taken away by God and became known as the angel Metatron. He is also a prophet in Islam known as Idris (Arabic: إدريس ). He is the protagonist of the several apocryphal books of the Old Testament:
  • 1st Book of Enoch, an apocryphal book in the Ethiopic Bible.
  • 2nd Book of Enoch, an apocryphal book in the Old Slavonic Bible.
  • 3rd Book of Enoch, a Kabbalistic Rabbinic text in Hebrew, attributed to Kohen Gadol Yishmael (90-135 CE).
• Enoch, son of Cain ^[2], after whom Cain named the first city he founded.
• Enoch, son of Reuben ^[3]
• Enoch, one of the five sons of Midian ^[4]

Note: Enoch is often confused with Enos.

[edit] People (outside the Bible)

• Hanoch Bartov (born 1926), Israeli author
• Hanoch Dagan, Israeli professor
• Hanoch Daum, Israeli journalist
• 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 (born Meir Henoch Mojszewicz Wallach-Finkelstein) (1876–1951), Russian revolutionary and diplomat
• Hanoch McCarty, professor
• Moses ben Hanoch (died c. 965), Babylonian-born Spanish rabbi
• Hanoch Nenner, Israeli politician
• Chanoch Nissany (born 1963), Israeli-born Hungarian racing driver
• Enoch Powell, right-wing British politician and member of parliament for the Conservative Party and later the Ulster Unionists.
• Enoch Root, a recurring character in Neal Stephenson's novels Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle.
• Enoch Pratt, 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland (USA) businessman and philanthropist.
• Enoch Robinson, a character in Sherwood Anderson's book Winesburg, Ohio

[edit] Places

• Enoch Reserve, an aboriginal settlement located west of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• Enoch Hopper, the most high-strung boy in Ithaca, California, from The Human Comedy, by William Saroyan
• Enoch, a small town north of Cedar City, Utah.
• Enoch, the name of a city in several of Samuel R. Delany's works, including the Return to Nevèrÿon series and The Mad Man.
• Alan E. Bernstein: The Formation of Hell: Death and retribution in the ancient and early Christian worlds, Cornell University Press, Ithaca/New York, 1993 [Seiten 178-190, 241-242] * Alan E. Bernstein: The Formation of Hell: Death and retribution in the ancient and early Christian worlds, Cornell University Press, Ithaca/New York, 1993 [Seiten 178-190, 241-242]

[edit] Places - German Literature

• Grippo, Giovanni "Das Buch der Engel - Das Henoch'sche System", Frank Jaspers Verlag, ISBN : 978-3-938090-12-1 [254 S., 30 schw.-w. Abb., 5 schw.-w. Tab., 15 schw.-w. Zeichn. - 21 x 15 cm] 1. Aufl. 11.02.2005
• Grippo, Giovanni "Das Buch der Waechter - Der Henoch'sche Orden" Frank Jaspers Verlag, ISBN : 978-3-937833-03-3 [232 S. - 21,5 x 15,5 cm] 1. Aufl. 09.2004

[edit] Other occurences

• Enochian, the occult language and script.
• Hanoch, a Star Trek villain in the episode Return to Tomorrow
• 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 Linux, a Linux distribution developed by Daniel Robbins later renamed Gentoo Linux.
• U. S. President Calvin Coolidge owned a goose named Enoch.
• Henoch-Schönlein purpura, a disease

[edit] References

1. ^ Genesis 5:18-24
2. ^ Genesis 4:17
3. ^ Genesis 46:9
4. ^ I Chronicles 1:33

• New Testament: Jude 1:14 [1]
• Order of Enoch: Enochian System [2]