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Key facts
- Venerated in
- Christianity , Islam , Mandaeism , Samaritanism
- Feast
- Sunday of the Holy Forefathers ( Eastern Orthodox Church )
- Children
- Kenan , more sons and daughters
- Father
- Seth
- Relatives
- Adam and Eve (grandparents), Cain (uncle), Abel (uncle), Enoch (cousin), Mahalalel (grandson), Jared (great-grandson), Enoch (great-great-grandson), Methuselah (great-great-great-grandson), Lamech (great-great-great-great-grandson), Noah (great-great-great-great-great-grandson)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Mesopotamia
- Father
- Seth
- Mother
- Azura
- Image
- Les vitraux du Moyen âge et de la Renaissance dans la région lyonnaise - 058-1 - Cathédrale, le patriarche Énos.jpg
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- present in work
- Luke 3
- date of birth
- 3769-00-00
- date of death
- 2864-00-00
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Enosh
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Enos or Enosh (Hebrew: אֱנוֹשׁ ʾĔnōš; "mortal man"; Arabic: أَنُوش/يَانِش, romanized: Yāniš/’Anūš; Greek: Ἐνώς Enṓs; Ge'ez: ሄኖስ Henos) is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. He is described as the first son of Seth who figures in the Generations of Adam, and is also referred to within the genealogies of 1 Chronicles.
In the New Testament, he figures within the genealogy of Jesus as it is set out in Luke 3:38. Enos is also mentioned in Islam in the various collections of tales of the pre-Islamic prophets, which honor him in an identical manner. Furthermore, early Islamic historians like Ibn Ishaq and Ibn Hisham always included his name in the genealogy of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, (Arabic: ’Anūsh أَنُوش or: Yānish يَانِش).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Enos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.