Definitions

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  • proper noun religion In the Abrahamic religions, one of the few people recorded as being taken by God before death.
  • proper noun The title of three apocryphal books of the Bible.
  • proper noun rare A male given name of biblical origin.

Etymologies

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From Late Latin Enoch, from Ancient Greek Ενωχ (Enōch), from Hebrew חֲנוֹךְ (Ḥănôḵ).

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Examples

  • ENOCH - Celebrating its fifth year as a Tree City, Enoch will hold its annual Arbor Day event Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Enoch City offices.

    thespectrum.com - Local News 2009

  • Marvin Enoch Potter Jr. is an ex-Marine and Vietnam vet who is charged with falsely posing as a war hero to lecture school kids on his combat experiences.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • Anonymous, I can't find the phrase "rivers of blood" in Enoch's precient speech.

    Could Someone Please Explain This To Me ? Laban 2006

  • What does it tell us that the story of Lucifer as the Dictator's first right hand man does not have him, in Enoch's role as Voice, mouthing the words "Let there be light"?

    A Dark And Hidden God Hal Duncan 2006

  • What does it tell us that the story of Lucifer as the Dictator's first right hand man does not have him, in Enoch's role as Voice, mouthing the words "Let there be light"?

    Archive 2006-02-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • She called Enoch again, and then, both fascinated and repelled by the red light boiling up into the sky, stood a moment watching.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • The name Enoch, Hebrew chanokh, signifies, "dedication" and so by metonomy may come to mean

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • I called Enoch, the man, and bade him saddle the horse and ride round to call out the neighbors, that they might all search together.

    Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

  • The book of Enoch is quoted by Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, &c. Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, brought home three copies of it in Ethiopic, from Alexandria, of which Archbishop Lawrence, in 1821, gave an English translation.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • But the book of Enoch is consecrated, in some measure, by the quotation of the apostle St. Jude; and a long legendary fragment is alleged by

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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