person
Enosh
אֱנוֹשׁἘνώς
Enosh was the son of Seth, and during his time people began to call upon the name of the Lord.
- verses
- 8
- first named
- Genesis 4:26
- last named
- Luke 3:38
- period
- before the Flood
- tribe
- Early Patriarch
Description
Who was Enosh?
Enosh, the son of Seth and grandson of Adam, is mentioned in the genealogy of the righteous line (Gen.5.6,7). He was born when Seth was 105 years old and lived a total of 905 years (Gen.5.6,11). Enosh's birth is significant because it marks a turning point in human history. The text states that during his time, people began to call upon the name of the Lord (Gen.4.26). This suggests a shift towards the public worship and invocation of God's name, possibly in response to the increasing wickedness and violence in the world. The beginning of this religious practice is attributed to the time of Enosh, highlighting his influence and the importance of his generation in the development of faith. Enosh's long life is consistent with the extended lifespans of the pre-flood patriarchs, and his descendants continued the righteous lineage (Gen.5.9,10). He is also mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus Christ, connecting him to the Messianic line (Luk.3.38). Enosh's legacy lies in the establishment of public worship and the recognition of the need for a relationship with God in the face of a fallen world.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Child of
- Sethregistry, no verse
Father of
- Kenanregistry, no verse
Took part in
Stands in the same events as
- Seth3 events
- Kenan1 event
- Enosh’s begetting of Kenan1 event
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 8, across 3 books.
Onward
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Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources