And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
Enoch - or Henoch (1 Chronicles 1:3), dedicated, or, according to Gesenius, initiated. These significations, because both of them are applicable, intimate, what from the subsequent conduct of Enoch there is reason to conclude, that he was early instructed in the things of God, trained to His worship, and devoted to His service. By this means, under the influence of the Spirit, his mind would receive that sacred bias which led him to act so decided a part, and to attain so great eminence in the service of Yahweh. The inspired record, in noticing this patriarch, deviates from the form observed in regard to all the rest, in two remarkable particulars; because, instead of saying that he lived so many years after the birth of the son by whom the genealogical series was continued, it states that he "walked with God;" and whereas it concludes the brief biography of the others with the announcement regarding each of them that "he died," the expression in Enoch's case is, that "he was not.'