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Enoch Cook (1845–1927), English cricketer; Enoch Jeavons (1893–1967), English first-class cricketer; Enoch Jenkins (1892–1984), Welsh sports shooter; Enoch Lewis (cricketer) (born 1954), West Indies cricketer; Enoch J. Mills (1880–1935), American sports coach; Enoch Nkwe, South African cricketer; Enoch Storer (1838–1880), English ...
Enoch (/ ˈ iː n ə k / ⓘ) [note 1] is a biblical figure and patriarch prior to Noah's flood, and the son of Jared and father of Methuselah. He was of the Antediluvian period in the Hebrew Bible. The text of the Book of Genesis says Enoch lived 365 years before he was taken by God.
Judging by the number of copies found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Book of Enoch was widely read during the Second Temple period.Today, the Ethiopic Beta Israel community of Haymanot Jews is the only Jewish group that accepts the Book of Enoch as canonical and still preserves it in its liturgical language of Geʽez, where it plays a central role in worship. [6]
Words of Old Norse origin have entered the English language, primarily from the contact between Old Norse and Old English during colonisation of eastern and northern England between the mid 9th to the 11th centuries (see also Danelaw). Many of these words are part of English core vocabulary, such as egg or knife. There are hundreds of such ...
In the book of 2 Enoch he is listed, with the name of Samuil or Sariel, as one of the angels that brought Enoch to heaven. [ 12 ] The book of War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness , from the Dead Sea Scrolls , lists the name of Sariel (שריאל, " God is my Ruler" ) along with Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel as names to write ...
Simcha is also the name of a kosher beer from Saxony, Germany. [2] It was also a slang term used in Jewish-American organized crime circles to refer to a pimp. [3] Members of the Chabad movement sometimes use the word Simcha (abbreviated as "S.") when referring to place names that begin with the word "Saint" in order to avoid what they believe is idolatry.
The Book of Enoch (also known as 1 Enoch), is an ancient Jewish religious work, ascribed by tradition and internal attestation to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. [1] [2] 1 Enoch holds material unique to it, such as the origins of supernatural demons and giants, why some angels fell from heaven, details explaining why the Great Flood was morally necessary, and an introduction of the ...
In the earliest manuscripts of the Book of Mormon, the intended spelling of Zenock was Zenoch, resembling the biblical Enoch. Oliver Cowdery, who transcribed part of the Book of Mormon, misspelled the name when he copied the text to a printer's manuscript, and that spelling has carried over to almost all published editions of the Book of Mormon.