Enos

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Meaning: man

The son of Seth, and grandson of Adam (Gen 5:6ff; Lk 3:38). He lived nine hundred and five years. In his time "men began to call upon the name of the Lord" (Gen 4:26), meaning either

(1) then began men to call themselves by the name of the Lord (marg.) i.e., to distinguish themselves thereby from idolaters; or

(2) then men in some public and earnest way began to call upon the Lord, indicating a time of spiritual revival.

Enos is the father of Cainan and other sons and daughters.

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Son of Seth, Adam's third son. In his time men began to call upon Yhwh (Gen 4:26). At the age of ninety he begat Cainan, and he died at the age of 900 years (Gen 5:9-11; 1Chr 1:1). The name doubtless means "man," as it is equivalent to the often recurring "nomen appellativum" (missing hebrew text) ("man," Deut 32:26) and the Aramaic (missing hebrew text) (Dan 2:10). Enos and the descendants of Seth in general (Gen 5:1ff) have been regarded by some modern scholars as simply arbitrary pendants to the Cainites (Gen 4:17ff); but the two series of names are very different.

Bibliography

• Friedrich Delitzsch, Wo Lag das Paradies? p. 149;
• A. H. Sayce, in The Expository Times, 1898-99, pp. 352 et seq.;
• Hommel, Aufsätze und Abhandlungen, 1900, part ii., p. 222;
• Gunkel, Handkommentar zur Genesis, 1901, p. 46.