Published 2026-11-01 · 4 min read
How many times is Enoch mentioned in the Bible?
The name “Enoch” appears 12 times in 11 verses of the King James Bible: 9 in Genesis and 3 in the New Testament. It names two men and a city. Enoch who “walked with God” is named 9 times; the Book of Enoch is not part of the Bible.
Download the per-verse CSV to check every match yourself. The method file (JSON) lists the rule, the source hash and every result.
How we counted
Rule: whole word, any case, in the verse text of our King James Version file. A letter, digit, underscore or hyphen next to the match disqualifies it, so a form never matches inside a longer word; possessives such as “’s” stay in. An occurrence is one match; a verse counts once however many matches it holds. This is the same rule as our Bible word counter.
| Form | Occurrences | Verses | In the headline |
|---|---|---|---|
| enoch | 12 | 11 | yes |
| Headline total | 12 | 11 |
Which Enoch? Two men and a city
| Who | Occurrences | References |
|---|---|---|
| Son of Cain (and the city named after him) | 3 | Genesis 4:17, Genesis 4:18 |
| Son of Jared, father of Methuselah | 9 | Genesis 5:18, Genesis 5:19, Genesis 5:21, Genesis 5:22, Genesis 5:23, Genesis 5:24, Luke 3:37, Hebrews 11:5, Jude 1:14 |
Genesis 4:17 uses the name twice: once for Cain’s son and once for the city Cain named after him. The other nine uses all name the son of Jared, the father of Methuselah, who “walked with God: and he was not; for God took him” (Genesis 5:24).
The KJV also spells the name “Henoch” 2 times, not included above: 1 Chronicles 1:3 is the same son of Jared, and 1 Chronicles 1:33 is a grandson of Abraham through Midian. Counting too, Jared’s son is named 10 times.
Every verse that names Enoch
And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Is the Book of Enoch in the Bible?
No. The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch) is not among the 66 books counted here, and it is not in the Catholic or Orthodox canons either; only the Ethiopian Orthodox Church includes it. Jude 1:14–15 quotes a prophecy of Enoch that closely matches 1 Enoch 1:9, which is why the question comes up.
Old Testament, New Testament and each book
| Testament | Occurrences | Verses |
|---|---|---|
| Old Testament | 9 | 8 |
| New Testament | 3 | 3 |
| Book (KJV) | Occurrences | Verses |
|---|---|---|
| Genesis | 9 | 8 |
| Luke | 1 | 1 |
| Hebrews | 1 | 1 |
| Jude | 1 | 1 |
First: Genesis 4:17. Last: Jude 1:14. The most in one verse is 2, in Genesis 4:17. 62 of the 66 books have no match.
Check the count yourself
Open enoch-count-audit.csv in a spreadsheet: 11 rows plus a header, one for every verse containing a counted form. The headline_occurrences column sums to 12 (=SUM over it) and has 11 non-zero rows (=COUNTIF(range,">0")). The context_url column opens each verse.
Or recount from scratch. Download count-words.py and run it with Python 3:
python count-words.py --output-dir results
It uses only Python’s standard library, downloads the pinned KJV file, checks its SHA-256 (0c3b8afefa4efaa8bd72576682c8ad060e4ccb499e81943a9678de49ab9416ad) and writes every CSV and the method JSON. The KJV text was imported from aruljohn/Bible-kjv; its exact printing is unknown. Only verse text is counted: no headings, notes or Apocrypha.
To count another word with the same rule, use the Bible word counter.
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