Definition of "Enoch"

Enoch

/ˈiːnək/

proper noun
1. In the Bible, one of the few people recorded as being taken by God before death.
  Quotations
  And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Genesis 5:24
2. The title of three apocryphal books of the Bible.
3. First son of Cain.
  Quotations
  And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Genesis 4:17
4. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
  Quotations
  There Enoch spoke no word to any one, But homeward—home—what home? had he a home? His home, he walk'd.
  1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Enoch Arden”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], pages 36–37
5. A First Nation reserve in Alberta, Canada; the postal name of Stony Plain Indian Reserve No. 135.