Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50294 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

enoshEnoch

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it: 240 times in 105 works
Consistency: 96.3% (240 of 249)
Reach if approved: ~266 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 253 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (240 changes in 105 works, 96.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 240)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
EnoſhEnoch lyued nintie yeeres, and begate Kenan.
With rule
EnoſhEnoch lyued nintie yeeres, and begate Kenan.
Hugh Broughton · Texts of Scripture Chaining the Holy Chronicle · Open in the reader
Printed
… moſt elegantly uſed by David, Quid eſt homo? where the name of man is EnoſhEnoch: And ſo that which we tranſlate, What is man, that thou art mindfull of …
With rule
… moſt elegantly uſed by David, Quid eſt homo? where the name of man is EnoſhEnoch: And ſo that which we tranſlate, What is man, that thou art mindfull of …
John Donne · Two Sermons Preached Before King Charles on Genesis 1:26 · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I will chasten him with the rod of men, the word there uſed is EnoſhEnoch, which ſignifies a weake man, I will chaſten him with the rod of a …
With rule
… I will chasten him with the rod of men, the word there uſed is EnoſhEnoch, which ſignifies a weake man, I will chaſten him with the rod of a …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 1-3 · p. 250 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of God, Psal. 68. 15. Or by their relations, as such as descending from Seth and EnoshEnoch professed the true worship of the true God, and so became capable of the …
With rule
… of God, Psal. 68. 15. Or by their relations, as such as descending from Seth and EnoshEnoch professed the true worship of the true God, and so became capable of the …
John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader
Printed
1. Would lay man low before God, and make him appear to be EnoſhEnoch, or frail man, as here he is called, See Chap. 41.5, 6.
With rule
1. Would lay man low before God, and make him appear to be EnoſhEnoch, or frail man, as here he is called, See Chap. 41.5, 6.
George Hutcheson · Exposition of Job · p. 465 · Open in the reader
Printed
… upon us by Sin Naturally, but we are Morally worſe than Nothing; that is [EnoſhEnoch] miſerable: As Nothing at the firſt was the Mother of all things, ſo Sin …
With rule
… upon us by Sin Naturally, but we are Morally worſe than Nothing; that is [EnoſhEnoch] miſerable: As Nothing at the firſt was the Mother of all things, ſo Sin …
Christopher Ness · Antidote Against Arminianism · p. 95 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sensible of their miserie spirituall & temporall, and from that sense Seth called his son EnoshEnoch (that is, Miserable or Calamitous) …hen Religion was solemnlie exercised by in-calling on …
With rule
… sensible of their miserie spirituall & temporall, and from that sense Seth called his son EnoshEnoch (that is, Miserable or Calamitous) …hen Religion was solemnlie exercised by in-calling on …
William Struther · A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his successors, who deriued their flesh from him. It is written of Sheth and EnoshEnoch, and Kenan, and Methuselah, that they liued nine hundred yeeres; but it is added …
With rule
… his successors, who deriued their flesh from him. It is written of Sheth and EnoshEnoch, and Kenan, and Methuselah, that they liued nine hundred yeeres; but it is added …
Archbishop George Abbot · Sermon Preached 26 May 1608 · p. 5 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Commentary on Daniel A15415

Printed
… the same word is not vsed in both places: for here the word is enoshEnoch, home, and in the other, ish, vir: this then is but a weake reason.
With rule
… the same word is not vsed in both places: for here the word is enoshEnoch, home, and in the other, ish, vir: this then is but a weake reason.
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 152 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Job 32-24 A35535

Printed
… man of the meaneſt ranke or loweſt forme; ſurely there is a ſpirit (in enoſhEnoch M^r Broughton tranſlates) in ſad man, in ſickly man, in weak man, in the …
With rule
… man of the meaneſt ranke or loweſt forme; ſurely there is a ſpirit (in enoſhEnoch M^r Broughton tranſlates) in ſad man, in ſickly man, in weak man, in the …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 32-24 · p. 51 · Open in the reader

The Portraiture of the Image of God in Man A73382

Printed
… Ben adam; the ſon of a man for us; Illuſt. ſo he was Ben-enoſhEnoch the ſonne of a fraile man, Pſal. 8.5. ſubject to paſſions and miſeries, he tooke …
With rule
… Ben adam; the ſon of a man for us; Illuſt. ſo he was Ben-enoſhEnoch the ſonne of a fraile man, Pſal. 8.5. ſubject to paſſions and miſeries, he tooke …
John Weemes · The Portraiture of the Image of God in Man · p. 145 · Open in the reader