חֲנוֹךְ
Hanoch
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2585 appears — 15 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 10 verses
- Genesis 4:17 חֲנ֑וֹךְ חֲנֽוֹךְ n Proper n Proper Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
- Genesis 4:18 לַֽ/חֲנוֹךְ֙ prep + n Proper To Enoch was born Irad. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech.
- Genesis 5:18 חֲנֽוֹךְ n Proper Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch.
- Genesis 5:19 חֲנ֔וֹךְ n Proper Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:21 חֲנ֔וֹךְ n Proper Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah.
- Genesis 5:22 חֲנ֜וֹךְ n Proper Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 5:23 חֲנ֑וֹךְ n Proper all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.
- Genesis 5:24 חֲנ֖וֹךְ n Proper Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
- Genesis 25:4 וַ/חֲנֹ֔ךְ conj + n Proper The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
- Genesis 46:9 חֲנ֥וֹךְ n Proper The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
Exodus 1 verse
Numbers 1 verse
1 Chronicles 3 verses
- 1 Chronicles 1:3 חֲנ֥וֹךְ n Proper Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
- 1 Chronicles 1:33 וַ/חֲנ֔וֹךְ conj + n Proper The sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.
- 1 Chronicles 5:3 חֲנ֥וֹךְ n Proper the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
חנוך (Chănôwk) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Hanoch.” Genesis dominates its distribution — 10 of 15 verses. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 15 verses — uncommon. Debuting at Genesis 4:17, it then recurs through the corpus. For the data behind this summary, explore 15-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2585 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,752
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,752 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 10 verses 67%
- 1 Chronicles 3 verses 20%
- Exodus 1 verse 7%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 15 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 12 verses · 80%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Enoch 9×, Hanoch 4×, Henoch 2×
- American Standard Version: Enoch 10×, Hanoch 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Enoch 9×, Hanoch 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Enoch 10×, Hanoch 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2585 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2585 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2585 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2585 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. son of Cain Gn 4:17(×2), 18 𝔊 Ενωχ, 𝔊L Ενως. e.g. Genesis 4:17
- 2. son of Jered (line of Seth), the pious Enoch, who walked with God and was taken by him Gn 5:18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24; 1 Ch 1:3 𝔊 Ενωχ. e.g. Genesis 5:18
- 3. חֲנֹךְ a son of Midian Gn 25:4; 1 Ch 1:33, 𝔊 Ενωχ. e.g. Genesis 25:4
- 4. חֲנוֹךְ a son of Reuben Gn 46:9 Ex 6:14; Nu 26:5; 1 Ch 5:3, 𝔊 Ενωχ. e.g. Genesis 46:9
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
Derived from חנך (chânak) (H2596) — to dedicate.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חִנּוּךְ
- , sub חִינּ׳.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms H2585 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֲנ֥וֹךְ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 46:9 | 3 |
| חֲנ֑וֹךְ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 4:17 | 2 |
| חֲנ֔וֹךְ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 5:19 | 2 |
| חֲנֽוֹךְ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 4:17 | 2 |
| וַ/חֲנ֔וֹךְ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 1:33 | 1 |
| וַ/חֲנֹ֔ךְ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 25:4 | 1 |
| חֲנ֖וֹךְ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 5:24 | 1 |
| חֲנ֜וֹךְ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 5:22 | 1 |
| חֲנ֤וֹךְ | Noun, Proper | Exodus 6:14 | 1 |
| חֲנוֹךְ֙ | Noun, Proper | Numbers 26:5 | 1 |
| לַֽ/חֲנוֹךְ֙ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 4:18 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2585, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- חך chêk H2441 mouth
- חניך chânîyk H2593 trained
- חנכה chănukkâh H2598 dedication
- חנק chânaq H2614 to strangle
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Hanoch). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(dedicated).
+ The third in order of the children of Midian. (Genesis 25:4) + Eldest son of Reuben, (Genesis 46:9; Exodus 6:14; Numbers 26:5; 1 Chronicles 5:3) and founder of the family of the Hanochites. (Numbers 26:5)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
dedicated
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 15 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 15 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
