Lexical Definition

‎חֲנוֹךְ‎ Chănôwk (khan-oke') Enoch ^N:N-M-P
from ‎חָנַךְ‎; initiated

Enoch.

• § Hanoch = "dedicated"
• Chanok, an antediluvian patriach

n pr m
1) eldest son of Cain
2) son of Jared and father of Methuselah whom God took home to heaven without dying
n pr loc
3) the city which Cain built and named after his son Enoch (after himself)
n pr m
4) a son of Midian, the third child
5) the eldest son of Reuben

See Greek: Ἐνώχ

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎חֲנוֺךְ‎

proper name, masculine 1. son of Cain Gen 4:17 (twice in verse); Gen 4:18 ᵐ5 Ενωχ, ᵐ5^L Ενως.

2. son of Jered (line of Seth), the pious Enoch, who walked with God and was taken by him Gen 5:18; Gen 5:19; Gen 5:21; Gen 5:22; Gen 5:23; Gen 5:24; 1Chr 1:3 ᵐ5 Ενωχ.

3. ‎חֲנֹךְ‎ a son of Midian Gen 25:4; 1Chr 1:33, ᵐ5 Ενωχ.

4. ‎חֲנוֺךְ‎ a son of Reuben Gen 46:9; Exod 6:14; Num 26:5; 1Chr 5:3, ᵐ5 Ενωχ.

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