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# חֲנוֹךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2585

**Enoch** — used 15 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

Enoch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2585/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲנוֹךְ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2585/#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, 15 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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 (8); Hanoch (4); \[were\] Hanoch (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.3/#tree)

חֲנ֥וֹךְ מְתוּשֶׁ֖לַח לָֽמֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* Enoch Methuselah Lamech

*JPS 1917:* Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech;

[Genesis 46:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.9/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֖י רְאוּבֵ֑ן חֲנ֥וֹךְ וּפַלּ֖וּא וְחֶצְר֥וֹן וְכַרְמִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Reuben Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2585.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2585/): 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).