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title: חֲנוֹךְ — Enoch · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֲנוֹךְ (lemma:חֲנוֹךְ), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Enoch. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֲנוֹךְ

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«חֲנוֹךְ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Enoch** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:חֲנוֹךְ · **BDB:** חֲנוֹךְ

### Glosses

Enoch (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Enoch [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e0_5d5_5b9_5da_5b0/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e0_5d5_5b9_5da_5b0/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of Cain Gn 4:17(×2), 18 𝔊 Ενωχ, 𝔊L Ενως. son of Jered (line of Seth), the pious Enoch, who walked with God and was taken by him Gn 5:18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24; 1 Ch 1:3 𝔊 Ενωχ. חֲנֹךְ a son of Midian Gn 25:4; 1 Ch 1:33, 𝔊 Ενωχ. חֲנוֹךְ a son of Reuben Gn 46:9 Ex 6:14; Nu 26:5; 1 Ch 5:3, 𝔊 Ενωχ.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֲנוֹךְ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e0_5d5_5b9_5da_5b0/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 4:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.17/)

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וַיֵּ֤דַע קַ֙יִן֙ אֶת־אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ וַתַּ֖הַר וַתֵּ֣לֶד אֶת־חֲנ֑וֹךְ וַֽיְהִי֙ בֹּ֣נֶה עִ֔יר וַיִּקְרָא֙ שֵׁ֣ם הָעִ֔יר כְּשֵׁ֖ם בְּנ֥וֹ חֲנֽוֹךְ׃

*Word for word:* and he.knew Cain (et) wife his and she.conceived and she.bore (et) Enoch and he.was building a.city and he.called the.name of the.city according to.the.name his.son his Enoch

*JPS 1917:* And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch; and he builded a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch.

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