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View Name: Enoch


ENOCH
GENDER: Masculine
USAGE: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
OTHER SCRIPTS: חֲנוֹך (Ancient Hebrew), Ενωχ (Ancient Greek)
PRONOUNCED: EE-nək (English)   [key]
Meaning & History
From the Hebrew name חֲנוֹך (Chanokh) meaning "dedicated". In Genesis in the Old Testament this is the name of both the son of Cain and the father of Methuselah, and the supposed author of the apocryphal Books of Enoch.
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OTHER LANGUAGES: Chanokh (Biblical Hebrew), Enok (Danish), Enok (Norwegian), Enok (Swedish)
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