Enoch
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Enoch or Hanokh (Hebrew: חֲנוֹךְ, Standard Ḥanoḫ Tiberian Ḥănôḵ, "Initiated; dedicated; disciplined") can refer to:
- One of several people mentioned in the Hebrew Bible:
- *Enoch, a direct descendant of Adam through Seth and ancestor of Noah [Genesis 5:18-24]
- *Enoch, son of Cain [Genesis 4:17]
- *Enoch, son of Reuben [Genesis 46:9]
- *Enoch, one of the five sons of Midian [I Chronicles 1:33]
- 1st Book of Enoch from the Apocrypha of the Old Testament.
- 2nd Book of Enoch from the Apocrypha of the Old Testament.
- 3rd Book of Enoch from the Apocrypha of the Old Testament.
- Enoch, a prophet in Islam, also known as Idris (Arabic: إدريس ).
- Enochian, the occult language and script.
- Enoch, a Star Trek villain in the episode Return to Tomorrow
- Enoch (also known as Enik), the only Land of the Lost Sleestak from the past (who was also able to talk) and therefore was hunted by his future Sleestak peers
- Enoch, in John Milton's Paradise Lost who is saved by God as his warring peers attempt to kill him
- Enoch, Katherine, extensively written about in A Cornish Shopkeeper's Diary 1843, R Glynn , as someone who loved a drink, leading to the authors expression of drunken abandonment 'I was enoched, not a muscle would move nor the gods awaken me.'
- Enoch Root, a recurring character in Neal Stephenson's novels Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle.
- Enoch Powell, right-wing British politician and Conservative Party MP.
Hanoch
There are various spellings: Hanoch, Chanoch, Henach, Henoch, etc.
People
- Chanoch Nissany (born 1963), Israeli-born Hungarian racing driver
- Hanoch Bartov (born 1926), Israeli author
- Hanoch Dagan, Israeli professor
- Hanoch Daum, Israeli journalist
- Hanoch Levin (1943–1999), Israeli writer
- Hanoch McCarty, professor
- Hanoch Nenner, Israeli politician
- Moses ben Hanoch (died c. 965), Babylonian-born Spanish rabbi
- Eduard Heinrich Henoch (1820–1910), German physician
- Henoch Leibowitz, American rabbi
- Maxim Litvinov (born Meir Henoch Mojszewicz Wallach-Finkelstein) (1876–1951), Russian revolutionary and diplomat
Other
- Henoch-Schönlein purpura, a disease
References
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