1. enoch - Noun
2. Enoch - Proper noun
A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
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.
The title of three apocryphal books of the Bible.
First son of Cain.
A First Nation reserve in Alberta, Canada; the postal name of Stony Plain Indian Reserve No. 135.
enoch (plural enochs)
(dialect, Yorkshire) an iron sledgehammer
Enoch caught his breath at the beauty and the wonder of it - the old, hard wonder of what this thing might be and what it might be meant to do. Clifford D. Simak
A million years ago there had been no river here and in a million years to come there might be no river - but in a million years from now there would be, if not Man, at least a caring thing. And that was the secret of the universe, Enoch told himself - a thing that went on caring. Clifford D. Simak
Among the various textual notes that appear in academic journals, I still find much to commend in the articles by J. Enoch Powell in the Classical Quarterly for 1935 and 1938. His suggestions and conjectures are also implicit in his absolutely indispensable Lexicon to Herodotus. Enoch Powell
According to Western scholars the older sections of the Book of Enoch (mainly in the Book of the Watchers) date from about 300 BC and the latest part (Book of Parables) probably was composed at the end of 1st century BC. Source: Internet
According to the apocryphal Book of Enoch the Nephilim were wicked sons of fallen angels who had lusted with attractive women. Source: Internet
Another source of Mani's scriptures was original Aramaic writings relating to the book of Enoch literature (see the Book of Enoch and the Second Book of Enoch ), as well as an otherwise unknown section of the book of Enoch called the " Book of Giants ". Source: Internet