Enoch (son of Cain)

Not to be confused with Enoch, son of Jared.

Enoch (/ˈiːnək/; Hebrew: חֲנוֹךְ; Ḥănōḵ) is a person in the Book of Genesis. He is described as a son of Cain, and father of Irad.

Enoch
Depiction of Cain establishing the city of Enoch, by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld.
Born	190-196 AM
Children	Irad
Parent(s)	Awan and Cain

Narrative

After Cain arrived in the Land of Nod, to which he was banished by God as his punishment for murdering his own brother Abel, his wife became pregnant and bore Cain's first child, whom he named Enoch.

This Enoch is not to be confused with Enoch, son of Jared, to whom the authorship of the Book of Enoch is ascribed.

After the birth of Enoch, the Hebrew text of Genesis 4:17 is unclear. Either Cain built a city and named it after the mighty Enoch, or else Enoch built a city.^[1] In the King James Bible, the text makes it clear that Cain built the city and named it after his son.

According to the Book of Jubilees 4:9, Enoch's mother/aunt was named Awan.

Family tree

Adam[a]

Eve[a]

Cain[a]

Abel[b]

Seth[c]

Enoch[d]

Enos[e]

Irad[f]

Kenan[g]

Mehujael[f]

Mahalalel[h]

Methushael[f]

Jared[i]

Adah[j]

Lamech[f]

Zillah[j]

Enoch[k]

Jabal[l]

Jubal[m]

Tubal-Cain[n]

Naamah[n]

Methuselah[o]

Lamech[p]

Noah[q]

Shem[r]

Ham[r]

Japheth[r]

1. Genesis 4:1
2. Genesis 4:2
3. Genesis 4:25; 5:3
4. Genesis 4:17
5. Genesis 4:26; 5:6–7
6. Genesis 4:18
7. Genesis 5:9–10
8. Genesis 5:12–13
9. Genesis 5:15–16
10. Genesis 4:19
11. Genesis 5:18–19
12. Genesis 4:20
13. Genesis 4:21
14. Genesis 4:22
15. Genesis 5:21–22
16. Genesis 5:25–26
17. Genesis 5:28–30
18. Genesis 5:32

References

1. John Byron (14 February 2011). Cain and Abel in Text and Tradition: Jewish and Christian Interpretations of the First Sibling Rivalry. BRILL. p. 124. ISBN 978-90-04-19252-2.