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title: אֱנוֹשׁ — Enos · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֱנוֹשׁ (583), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: Enos. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֱנוֹשׁ

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«אֱנוֹשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Enos** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 7 times · **Key:** 583 · **BDB:** אֱנוֹשׁ²

### Glosses

Enosh (6); of.Enosh (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Enos [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/583/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/583/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of Seth Gn 4:26; 5:6, 7, 9, 10, 11; 1 Ch 1:1.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֱנוֹשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/583/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 1:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.1/)

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אָדָ֥ם שֵׁ֖ת אֱנֽוֹשׁ׃

*Word for word:* Adam Seth Enosh

*JPS 1917:* ADAM, SETH, Enosh;

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[Genesis 5:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.5.9/)

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וַֽיְחִ֥י אֱנ֖וֹשׁ תִּשְׁעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת־קֵינָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.lived Enosh ninety year\[s\] and he.fathered (et) Kenan

*JPS 1917:* And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Kenan.

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