inquiringmind Posted May 3, 2013 Posted May 3, 2013 Does the name חנוך appear in the genealogy in Genesis 5:18,19,21,22, 23, or 24?Is it the same name that appears in Genesis 4:17-18 (and is it spelled the same way)?
MormonMason Posted May 3, 2013 Posted May 3, 2013 Does the name חנוך appear in the genealogy in Genesis 5:18,19,21,22, 23, or 24?Is it the same name that appears in Genesis 4:17-18 (and is it spelled the same way)?Yes. Looks the same to me.
inquiringmind Posted May 3, 2013 Author Posted May 3, 2013 (edited) Yes. Looks the same to me.It doesn't look more like this חֲנֽוֹךְ׃ ? Edited May 3, 2013 by inquiringmind
volgadon Posted May 3, 2013 Posted May 3, 2013 Does the name חנוך appear in the genealogy in Genesis 5:18,19,21,22, 23, or 24?Yes.Is it the same name that appears in Genesis 4:17-18 (and is it spelled the same way)?Yes.
MormonMason Posted May 3, 2013 Posted May 3, 2013 It doesn't look more like this חֲנֽוֹךְ׃ ?I am looking again at one of my copies of Tana"kh as I type this. The spelling in all the passages is identical. The way you have just posted it is with the vowel marks. The way you posted it previously is with only the consonants. In either case it is the same name.
volgadon Posted May 3, 2013 Posted May 3, 2013 It doesn't look more like this חֲנֽוֹךְ׃ ?You are looking at the vowel marks, nikkud. The letters themselves are identical.
Robert F. Smith Posted May 4, 2013 Posted May 4, 2013 Now that we have gotten that out of the way, and everyone else is left wondering what this was all about, let me say this:The subject was Enoch = Hebrew Ḥănôk, which may mean something like "Initiated (into the mysteries)," or "Founder (of the first city)." Since he is the seventh from Adam, he is sometimes compared to Mesopotamian Enmeduranki, the seventh antediluvian king, or of Enmeduranki's adviser, Utu-abzu, the seventh antediluvian sage, who ascended to heaven. (R. Hess, "Enoch," in D. Freedman, ed., Anchor Bible Dictionary, II:508). 3
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