Henok

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Amharic (Ethiopia)

Meaning

a masculine Amharic name that is the Ethiopian rendering of the biblical patriarch Enoch — the seventh patriarch from Adam in the Book of Genesis, who according to the text walked with God and was taken by God without dying; the Book of Enoch, an ancient Jewish text preserved in its complete form only in the Ethiopian Orthodox canon — the Ge'ez Enoch or 1 Enoch — is one of the most important texts in the Ethiopian Orthodox tradition and plays a significant role in Ethiopian cosmology and angelology; that Ethiopia alone preserved the complete Book of Enoch, which was rediscovered by Europeans only in the eighteenth century, gives the name Henok particular resonance in the Ethiopian religious tradition

Gender

male

Also spelled

Enoch, Henoch