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# אֱנוֹשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H583

**Enos** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Enos [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/583/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֱנוֹשׁ²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/583/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of Seth Gn 4:26; 5:6, 7, 9, 10, 11; 1 Ch 1:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Enosh (6); of Enosh (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.1/#tree)

אָדָ֥ם שֵׁ֖ת אֱנֽוֹשׁ׃

*Word for word:* Adam Seth Enosh

*JPS 1917:* ADAM, SETH, Enosh;

[Genesis 5:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.5.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.5.9/#tree)

וַֽיְחִ֥י אֱנ֖וֹשׁ תִּשְׁעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת־קֵינָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.lived Enosh ninety year\[s\] and he.fathered (et) Kenan

*JPS 1917:* And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Kenan.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/583.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/583/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).