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Proper noun

Enoch

1. In the Bible, one of the few people recorded as being taken by God before death.
   • 1611, Bible (KJV), Genesis 5:24::

     And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

   Enoch was the son of Awan and Cain; and was Noah's great grandfather.

2. The title of three apocryphal books of the Bible.
3. (rare) A male given name of biblical origin.
   • 1864 Alfred Tennyson: Enoch Arden:

     There Enoch spoke no word to any one,

     But homeward - home - what home? had he a home? -

     He walked.

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• cohen, Cohen