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enoch

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈiːnək/ / /ˈiːnɒk/

name

Etymology: From Late Latin Enoch, from Ancient Greek Ἑνώχ (Henṓkh), from Hebrew חֲנוֹךְ (Ḥănôḵ).

  1. In the Bible, one of the few people recorded as being taken by God before death.

    “Enoch was the son of Jared, and was Noah’s great grandfather.”

    “And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.”

  2. The title of three apocryphal books of the Bible.
  3. First son of Cain.

    “And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.”

  4. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.

    “There Enoch spoke no word to any one, But homeward—home—what home? had he a home? His home, he walk'd.”

  5. A First Nation reserve in Alberta, Canada; the postal name of Stony Plain Indian Reserve No. 135.

noun

Etymology: Named after a blacksmith Enoch Taylor of Marsden, Yorkshire. Used by Luddites to smash cropping machines, Taylor made sledgehammers and also the machine frames which sparked riots: "Enoch made them. Enoch shall break them".

  1. an iron sledgehammer

    “Each swung cast-iron Enoch of Leeds stress clangs a forged music on the frames of Art, the looms of owned language smashed apart!”