Enoch
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Late Latin Enoch, from Ancient Greek Ενωχ (Enōch), from Hebrew חֲנוֹךְ (Ḥănôḵ).
[edit] Proper noun
Enoch
- (biblical) In the Bible,one of the few people recorded as being taken by God before death.
- The title of three apocryphal books of the Bible.
- (rare) A male given name of biblical origin.
[edit] Quotations
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), Genesis 5:24:
- And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
- 1864 Alfred Tennyson: Enoch Arden:
- There Enoch spoke no word to any one,
- But homeward - home - what home? had he a home? -
- He walked.
