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Person

Enoch (father of Methuselah)

Also called Henoch

Mentioned in 10 verses across 5 books, first in Genesis 5:18. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

At a glance

Name

Enoch

Gender

Male

Ussher–Jones reckoning

born c. 3382 BC · died c. 3017 BC

F. N. Jones’s Ussher-style chronology, used by Theographic: one of several traditional counts, added up from the ages and reigns in the Hebrew text. The Jewish count (Seder Olam) and the Septuagint’s figures differ from it, for early Genesis by centuries. Not a scholarly date.

Most early-Genesis dates are not historically established: they are reckoned from the ages in the genealogies, and nothing outside the text confirms them.

Group

Genealogy of Jesus

Family

Father

Jared

Children

Methuselah

As the dataset records them from the biblical genealogies.

Often appears with

Named in the same verses most often. Sharing a verse doesn’t always mean they met.

In the Bible

All 10 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Genesis

Genesis 5:18
When Jared was 162 years old, he became the father of Enoch.
Genesis 5:19
And after he had become the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:21
When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah.
Genesis 5:22
And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:23
So Enoch lived a total of 365 years.
Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 1:3
Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech.

Luke

Luke 3:37
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan,

Hebrews

Hebrews 11:5
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

Jude

Jude 1:14
Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones

Events

Events the dataset lists Enoch (father of Methuselah) as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

c. 3382 BC
Birth of EnochGenesis 5:18
c. 3382 BC
Lifetime of EnochGenesis 5:21–24
c. 3317 BC
Birth of MethuselahGenesis 5:21
c. 3017 BC
Enoch taken upGenesis 5:24 – Hebrews 11:5

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

The son of Jared, and father of Methuselah (Gen. 5:21; Luke 3:37). His father was one hundred and sixty-two years old when he was born. After the birth of Methuselah, Enoch “walked with God three hundred years” (Gen. 5:22-24), when he was translated without tasting death. His whole life on earth was three hundred and sixty-five years. He was the “seventh from Adam” (Jude 1:14), as distinguished from the son of Cain, the third from Adam. He is spoken of in the catalogue of Old Testament worthies in the Epistle to the Hebrews (11:5). When he was translated, only Adam, so far as recorded, had as yet died a natural death, and Noah was not yet born. Mention is made of Enoch’s prophesying only in Jude 1:14.