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Gill's Exposition
And all the days or Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died. According to the Arabic writers (n), this man was a very good man, governed his people well, and instructed them in the ways of…
We have here all that the Holy Ghost thought fit to leave upon record concerning five of the patriarchs before the flood, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, and Jared. There is nothing observable…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Kenan The first syllable of this name is the same in Hebrew as the name "Cain," and it is presumably akin in meaning as well as in form (see note on Gen 4:1).