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# חֲנוֹךְ

Biblical Hebrew

**Enoch** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Enoch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e0_5d5_5b9_5da_5b0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲנוֹךְ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e0_5d5_5b9_5da_5b0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of Cain Gn 4:17(×2), 18 𝔊 Ενωχ, 𝔊L Ενως. son of Jered (line of Seth), the pious Enoch, who walked with God and was taken by him Gn 5:18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24; 1 Ch 1:3 𝔊 Ενωχ. חֲנֹךְ a son of Midian Gn 25:4; 1 Ch 1:33, 𝔊 Ενωχ. חֲנוֹךְ a son of Reuben Gn 46:9 Ex 6:14; Nu 26:5; 1 Ch 5:3, 𝔊 Ενωχ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 4:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.17/#tree)

וַיֵּ֤דַע קַ֙יִן֙ אֶת־אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ וַתַּ֖הַר וַתֵּ֣לֶד אֶת־חֲנ֑וֹךְ וַֽיְהִי֙ בֹּ֣נֶה עִ֔יר וַיִּקְרָא֙ שֵׁ֣ם הָעִ֔יר כְּשֵׁ֖ם בְּנ֥וֹ חֲנֽוֹךְ׃

*Word for word:* and he.knew Cain (et) wife his and she.conceived and she.bore (et) Enoch and he.was building a.city and he.called the.name of the.city according to.the.name his.son his Enoch

*JPS 1917:* And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch; and he builded a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e0_5d5_5b9_5da_5b0/): 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).