Enoch
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Enoch (/ˈiːnək/ ⓘ)[note 1] 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.
Enoch the Patriarch | |
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Antediluvian Patriarch | |
Born | 622 AM Babylon |
Died | 987 AM ("taken up by God" as per traditions) |
Venerated in | Christianity[lower-roman 1] Islam Judaism[lower-roman 2] New religious movements[lower-roman 3] |
Feast | Sunday[lower-roman 4] before the Nativity of Christ in the Eastern Orthodox Church 22 January in the Coptic Church 19 July (his assumption in the Coptic Church) 3 January (Bollandists)[1] |
The text of the Book of Genesis says Enoch lived 365 years before he was taken by God. The text reads that Enoch "walked with God: and he was no more; for God took him" (Gen 5:21–24), which is interpreted as Enoch entering heaven alive in some Jewish and Christian traditions, and interpreted differently in others.[citation needed]
Enoch is the subject of many Jewish and Christian traditions. He was considered the author of the Book of Enoch[2] and also called the scribe of judgment.[3] In the New Testament, Enoch is referenced in the Gospel of Luke, the Epistle to the Hebrews, and in the Epistle of Jude, the last of which also quotes from it.[4] In the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Oriental Orthodoxy, he is venerated as a Saint. Some Muslims identify Enoch with Idris and consider him a prophet due to the Quran's recognition of Idris as a prophet.
The name of Enoch (Hebrew: חֲנוֹךְ Ḥănōḵ) derives from the Hebrew root חנך (ḥ-n-ḵ), meaning to train, initiate, dedicate, inaugurate,[5] with חֲנוֹךְ/חֲנֹךְ (Ḥănōḵ) being the imperative form of the verb.[6][7]