חֲנוֹךְ
Chănôwk · khan-oke'
Chanok, an antediluvian patriach
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2596 (חָנַךְ); initiated;
Chanok, an antediluvian patriach
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Enoch.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › the seed, life continuing › to fasten and establish › the open hand that covers
To separate and protect of the seed, life continuing that works to fasten and establish of the open hand that covers.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חֲנוֹךְ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
16 occurrences · 16 OT · 0 NT · 11 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- enoch4 · 25%
- and enoch3 · 19%
- hanoch3 · 19%
- and unto enoch1 · 6%
- of enoch1 · 6%
- and hanoch1 · 6%
- henoch1 · 6%
- and henoch1 · 6%
- were, hanoch1 · 6%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.