How do you pronounce Enoch?

Boy Names
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See the results of this poll: How do you pronounce Enoch?

Respondents: 120 (This poll is closed)

  • “ee-NOCK” : 94 (78%)
  • “ee-NICK” : 12 (10%)
  • Another way (explain in comments): 14 (12%)
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More like “nuk” than “nok” or “nik,” and I put the emphasis on the first syllable: EE-nək.

I’ve heark EE-nok before, but never EE-nik.

3

I say ee-nock but I have heard ee-nuck too. I have never heard it pronounced ee-nick

4

Whoops. I should have clarified that I’m putting emphasis on the first syllable too. The capitalization was to emphasis the differences between the two pronunciations.

@goodhope: EE-nuk makes more sense than EE-nik…

5

EE-nuk, sometimes EE-nok

6

“EE-nuhk” is the way I pronounce it.

7

Ee-[name]NICK[/name] is probably correct, but the moment I saw it I said “Ee-NOCK”

8

I have a friend named [name]Enoch[/name] and he pronounces it EE-nok, so that’s how I based my vote.

9

Ee-nock. Where would Ee-nick come from? Basing the pronunciation on [name]Enoch[/name] [name]Powell[/name].

10

I’ve always heard it pronounced EE-nuck.

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I voted “another way,” because I’d describe my pronunciation the way goodhope did–EE-nuk. EE-nock is probably the most correct, but EE-nuk, and probably EE-nick in more aggravated cases, is what happens when you pronounce it without taking the time to really open your mouth and put that ‘[name]AH[/name]’ sound in EE-nock. And I don’t know for sure, but I would guess that all of these are more or less Anglicized pronunciations and not the original Hebrew.
Good luck!

12

I voted ee-KNOCK, but I agree, it’s with more of an emphasis on the “EE”. EE-nick/EE-nuck has always seemed like the lazy way to say it to me, lol, like they couldn’t be bothered to actually pronounce the last syllable correctly. I knew an Enoc growing up, and that’s how he said it. That’s how it was always pronounced in Bible stories, sermons, Bible classes, etc. growing up, too.

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This has made me feel better. [name]Glad[/name] I’m not pronouncing it wrong after all.

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It’s not Ee-nock. I voted other, but its closer to Ee-nick. It’s a neutral vowel sound. EE-nehk, Ee-nihk. Closer to, for example, the last vowel in [name]Isaac[/name].

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enoch

And in Hebrew its Chanokh with the ch as in Chanukah or the end of loch ness, not as in choo-choo train.

15

I’ve always heard it pronounced E-nuck.

16

Ee-nuk or Ee-nook

17

e noch…

18

EE-nock for sure.

19

It’s pronounced e-knock . not enick or enuck.
go type the word in and watch it be pronounced.

20

agree with others the first syllable is stressed - EE-nok, but with a soft “k” sound.