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Enosh
Early antediluvian patriarch, son of Seth and grandson of Adam, in whose generation the calling upon God's name is said to have begun.
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Enosh was the son of and grandson of , an early patriarch in the antediluvian line that leads from Adam to . Genesis 5 records that Seth became the father of Enosh when he was 105 years old, and that Enosh lived 905 years in all. Genesis 4:26 notes that in the days of Enosh men began to call upon the name of the Lord, a detail that marks his generation as a turning point in the religious history of early humanity. He appears in the genealogies of 1 Chronicles 1 and in Luke 3:38 as an ancestor of . The name Enosh, like the cognate Enos, means 'man' or 'mankind.'
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