People of the Bible
Enoch (father of Methuselah)
also called Henoch · 3381 BC – 3017 BC · Genealogy of Jesus
Family
- Father
- Jared
- Children
- Methuselah
In the story
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.
- Birth of Enoch · 3381 BC
- Lifetime of Enoch · 3381 BC
- Birth of Methuselah · 3316 BC
- Enoch taken up · 3016 BC
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
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.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 10 verses
The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.