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Enoch, the son of Jared, a great-grandfather of Noah, and father of Methuselah. Also 1Chron.1:3, Luke 3:37, Heb.11:5.
Enoch, son of Cain , after whom Cain named the first city he founded, is not the same Enoch son of Jared.
Hanoch, son of Reuben
Hanoch, one of the five sons of Midian Note: Enoch is often confused with Enos. Enos is recorded as a grandson of Adam, and great grandfather of Enoch.
The words attributed to "Enoch, the Seventh from Adam"...more »
- Powell, Enoch
Powell, Enoch, 1912–98, British politician. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a fellow there (1934–38) and professor of Greek at the Univ. of Sydney, Australia (1937–39). He enter...
- Wines, Enoch Cobb
Wines, Enoch Cobb, 1806–79, American clergyman and prison reformer, b. Hanover, N.J. After a varied career as a schoolmaster and preacher he became (1861) secretary of the Prison Association o...
- Irad
Irad, in the Bible, Enoch's son.
- Jared
Jared, in the Bible, father of Enoch. It is also spelled Jered.
- Methuselah
Methuselah, in the Bible, descendant of Seth; son of Enoch. He is said to have lived 969 years. It is also spelled Mathusala.
- Hanoch
[Heb.,=Enoch], in the Bible. 1 Son of Midian. It is also spelled Henoch. 2 Reuben's eldest son.
- Azazel
Azazel, in the Bible, an obscure term found in the ritual of the scapegoat in the Book of Leviticus. Azazel may be the place to which the scapegoat was sent, the scapegoat itself, or the deser...
- Evans, Charles
Evans, Charles, 1850–1935, American librarian and bibliographer, b. Boston. He organized many major American libraries including the Indianapolis public library, the Enoch Pratt Free Library i...
- Bennett, Arnold
Bennett, Arnold (Enoch Arnold Bennett), 1867–1931, English novelist and dramatist. One of the great 20th-century English novelists, Bennett is famous for his realistic novels about the Five To...
- Jude, epistle of the New Testament
Jude, epistle of the New Testament, the next to last book of the Bible. The Jude who wrote it has been identified since ancient times with St. Jude the apostle, but most modern scholars deny t...
