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Enoch



Enoch or Hanokh (Hebrew: , Standard Tiberian , "Initiated; dedicated; disciplined") can refer to:
*One of several people mentioned in the Hebrew Bible::*Enoch, a direct descendant of Adam through Seth and ancestor of Noah Genesis 5:18-24:*Enoch, son of Cain Genesis 4:17:*Enoch, son of Reuben Genesis 46:9:*Enoch, one of the five sons of Midian I Chronicles 1:33

or:
*1st Book of Enoch from the Apocrypha of the Old Testament.
*2nd Book of Enoch from the Apocrypha of the Old Testament.
*3rd Book of Enoch from the Apocrypha of the Old Testament.
*Enoch, a prophet in Islam, also known as Idris (Arabic: إدريس ).
*Enochian, the occult language and script.
*Enoch, a Star Trek villain in the episode Return to Tomorrow
*Enoch, in John Milton's Paradise Lost who is saved by God as his warring peers attempt to kill him
*Enoch, Katherine, extensively written about in A Cornish Shopkeeper's Diary 1843, R Glynn , as someone who loved a drink, leading to the authors expression of drunken abandonment 'I was enoched, not a muscle would move nor the gods awaken me.'
*Enoch Root, a recurring character in Neal Stephenson's novels Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle.
*Enoch Powell, right-wing British politician and Conservative Party MP.

Hanoch

There are various spellings: Hanoch, Chanoch, Henach, Henoch, etc.

People

* Chanoch Nissany (born 1963), Israeli-born Hungarian racing driver
* Hanoch Bartov (born 1926), Israeli author
* Hanoch Dagan, Israeli professor
* Hanoch Daum, Israeli journalist
* Hanoch Levin (1943â€"1999), Israeli writer
* Hanoch McCarty, professor
* Hanoch Nenner, Israeli politician
* Moses ben Hanoch (died c. 965), Babylonian-born Spanish rabbi
* Eduard Heinrich Henoch (1820â€"1910), German physician
* Henoch Leibowitz, American rabbi
* Maxim Litvinov (born Meir Henoch Mojszewicz Wallach-Finkelstein) (1876â€"1951), Russian revolutionary and diplomat

Other

* Henoch-Schönlein purpura, a disease

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