Enoch is a biblical figure and patriarch prior to Noah's flood, and the son of Jared and father of Methuselah. He was of the Antediluvian period in the Hebrew Bible.
Detail from a 17th century Polish icon.
Enoch, lithograph by William Blake, 1807.
Patriarch Enoch, a fresco by Theophanes the Greek, 14th century.
Elijah and Enoch – seventeenth-century icon, Historic Museum in Sanok, Poland
The patriarchs of the Bible, when narrowly defined, are Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob, also named Israel, the ancestor of the Israelites. These three figures are referred to collectively as "the patriarchs", and the period in which they lived is known as the patriarchal age.
Abraham, Sarah and Hagar, imagined here in a Bible illustration from 1897.
Isaac blessing his son, as painted by Giotto di Bondone
Jacob Wrestling with the Angel by Eugène Delacroix
Cave of the Patriarchs, Hebron