Enoch in Easton's Bible Dictionary
initiated. (1.) The eldest son of Cain (Gen. 4:17), who
built a
city east of Eden in the land of Nod, and called it
"after the
name of his son Enoch." This is the first "city"
mentioned in
Scripture.
(2.) The son of Jared, and father of Methuselah
(Gen. 5:21;
Luke 3:37). His father was one hundred and sixty-two
years old
when he was born. After the birth of Methuselah,
Enoch "walked
with God three hundred years" (Gen. 5:22-24), when
he was
translated without tasting death. His whole life on
earth was
three hundred and sixty-five years. He was the
"seventh from
Adam" (Jude 1:14), as distinguished from the son of
Cain, the
third from Adam. He is spoken of in the catalogue of
Old
Testament worthies in the Epistle to the Hebrews
(11:5). When he
was translated, only Adam, so far as recorded, had
as yet died a
natural death, and Noah was not yet born. Mention is
made of
Enoch's prophesying only in Jude 1:14.
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