ENOCH
“initiated, consecrated.”
(a) Son of Cain, and name of the city founded by Cain, to which he gave the name of his son (Gen. 4:17).
(b) Son of Jared, he begat Methuselah. He lived 365 years and walked with God. Enoch is the only one in the antediluvian genealogy about whom it is not said “and he died.” This was because he “God took him” (Gen. 5:18-24).
He was “translated so that he would not see death” (Heb. 11:5; Ecclos. 44:16; 49:14). A prophecy of Enoch, announcing God’s righteous judgment against the wicked, has been incorporated into Judah. 14, 15. The words of this prophecy are also found in the Jewish apocryphal book of Enoch, although manipulated.
(c) Son of Midian; descendant of Abraham and Keturah (Gen. 25:4), transcribed Hanoch.
(d) Son of Reuben, also transcribed as Hanoch (Gen. 46:9).