Berean
Enoch

Appendix A

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The testing was done one word at a time, in the place each word does its work. They are gathered here in one list, so a reader who wants a term again does not have to hunt the movement it came from. Each entry gives the word, a plain gloss, the verses where it sits, and the movement that walked it. Transliteration only, the same as the body; no claim is made on the reader's pronunciation. Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and Ge'ez are marked.

1 Enoch (the book)

the ancient Jewish work — preserved in full only in Ethiopic (Ge'ez) — attributed to Enoch, the seventh from Adam; quoted as prophecy in Jude, copied at Qumran, and canonized only by the Ethiopian church. Tested here as witness, not authority. Jude 14–15; 1 Enoch 1:9. · Movement One

abyssos (Greek)

"the abyss," the deep or pit where the rebel spirits are bound, and which the demons dread to be sent back to. Luke 8:31; Revelation 9:1–2. · Movement Three

the Animal Apocalypse (of the Ge'ez)

the symbolic vision of 1 Enoch 85–90 that retells Israel's history with the patriarchs as bulls, Israel as a flock of sheep, and the enemy nations as beasts and birds — matching the canonical record at every major turn. 1 Enoch 85–90. · Movement Six

the Apocalypse of Weeks (of the Ge'ez)

the scheme of 1 Enoch 93 / 91 that divides all of history into ten "weeks," or epochs, running from creation to the new creation. 1 Enoch 93:1–10; 91:11–17. · Movement Six

the Astronomical Book (of the Ge'ez)

1 Enoch 72–82, the angel Uriel's tour of the courses of the sun, moon, and stars, which lays out the 364-day solar year; among the oldest sections, with Aramaic fragments found at Qumran. 1 Enoch 72–82. · Movement Five

Azazel (Hebrew)

in Leviticus 16 the destination of the live goat driven into the wilderness on the Day of Covering, a name the Torah never explains; in 1 Enoch, the Watcher who taught weaponry, cosmetics, and sorcery, bound in the desert. Leviticus 16:8–10; 1 Enoch 8; 10. · Movements Two and Seven

bar enash (Aramaic)

"son of man," the human-looking yet more-than-human figure given everlasting dominion in Daniel's vision, and the title Yeshua chose for Himself more than any other. Daniel 7:13. · Movement Four

ben adam (Hebrew)

"son of man," the plain Hebrew for a mortal human being — the form God uses, for instance, in addressing Ezekiel. Ezekiel 2:1. · Movement Four

b'nei ha'Elohim (Hebrew)

"the sons of God," the divine council or angelic beings — not the human line of Seth; the "Sethite view" is a later, non-angelic reading. Genesis 6:1–4; Job 1:6; 38:7; Psalm 29:1. · Movement Two

Day of Covering (Hebrew, Yom Kippur)

Israel's holiest day, on which one goat was killed "for YHWH" and one was sent away "to Azazel" into the wilderness. Leviticus 16. · Movements Two and Three

Jubilees (the book)

a Second-Temple writing that carries the same 364-day solar calendar as the Astronomical Book; like 1 Enoch, preserved by the Ethiopian tradition. 1 Enoch 72–82. · Movement Five

the Lord of Spirits (of the Ge'ez)

the Parables' favorite title for God, the unseen Source before whom the Son of Man is named and enthroned. 1 Enoch 37–71. · Movement Four

the luminaries (English, for Hebrew meorot)

the sun, moon, and stars God set in the sky on the fourth day to govern days, years, and the appointed times. Genesis 1:14. · Movement Five

Memra (Aramaic)

"the Word"; the synagogue Targums' name for the one God's own self-expression, by which the uncontainable Source makes Himself seen and reachable without becoming a second God — the lens this whole series reads by. The seen is the manifestation; the Source is never the thing seen. Genesis 1; John 1:1, 14. · Prologue and throughout

moed / moedim (Hebrew)

"an appointed time," a set meeting; the Torah's own word for the festivals of YHWH, and the purpose the luminaries were set to serve. Genesis 1:14; Leviticus 23. · Movement Five

Nephilim (Hebrew)

the giants; traditionally derived from the root naphal, "to fall"; the giant offspring of the Watchers and human women, whose bodies perished in the flood and whose kind persists in the Rephaim and Anakim. Genesis 6:4; Numbers 13:33. · Movements Two and Three

the Parables / Similitudes (of the Ge'ez)

the section of 1 Enoch (chapters 37–71) that unfolds the vision of the Son of Man; the one major section not found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. 1 Enoch 37–71. · Movement Four

protoevangelium (Greek-derived)

"the first gospel," the name given to the garden promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent's head. Genesis 3:15. · Movement Four

Qumran (place)

the Dead Sea community whose hidden library — the Dead Sea Scrolls — preserved eleven Aramaic copies of 1 Enoch, and which kept the 364-day solar calendar. (the Dead Sea Scrolls) · Movements One and Five

Rephaim (Hebrew)

a giant people of the land; Og of Bashan is named "the last of the Rephaim." Deuteronomy 3:11. · Movement Three

Ruach (Hebrew)

"breath, wind, Spirit"; God's own presence at work in the world — not a distinct third person. · throughout

the Sethite view (a reading)

the reading of Genesis 6 that makes "the sons of God" the godly line of Seth rather than angelic beings; it had no early foothold, rising only in the centuries after Christ. Genesis 6:1–4; Augustine, City of God 15. · Movements Two and Seven

Sheol (Hebrew)

the realm of the dead; in 1 Enoch 22, as in Yeshua's parable, a differentiated place — the righteous and the unrighteous separated by a fixed, uncrossable gulf. Luke 16:19–31; 1 Enoch 22. · Movement Three

the Son of Man (rendering Aramaic bar enash)

"one like a human being"; the enthroned, pre-existent figure of Daniel 7 given everlasting dominion, carried through the Parables of 1 Enoch, and claimed by Yeshua as His own name. Daniel 7:13–14. · Movement Four

Tewahedo (Ge'ez)

"made one"; the Ethiopian Orthodox church, tracing its faith to the Ethiopian official of Acts 8, whose canon has always included 1 Enoch. Acts 8. · Movement One

walda be'si (Ge'ez)

"son of a particular man"; the specific, dominant messianic form of the Son of Man title in the Parables — the figure under the throne and the judgment, closest to Daniel's bar enash. 1 Enoch 37–71. · Movement Four

walda 'egwala 'emmaheyaw (Ge'ez)

"child of the mother of the living" — that is, a human being; read more fully, an offered reading takes it as son of the descendant of Eve, the seed of the woman, so that the title itself would encode the garden's first gospel promise. 1 Enoch 37–71; Genesis 3:15, 3:20. · Movement Four

walda sab' (Ge'ez)

"son of man / a human being, a mortal"; the generic, human form of the Son of Man title in the Parables. 1 Enoch 37–71. · Movement Four

the Watchers (of the Aramaic irin, "the watchful ones")

the class of angelic beings in 1 Enoch 6–16 who "left their proper dwelling," descended on Mount Hermon, took human wives, and were chained in darkness until judgment — the untold story behind 2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 6. Daniel 4:13; 1 Enoch 6–16; Jude 6. · Movements Two, Three, Six

yarad (Hebrew)

"to descend, to come down"; the root behind the name Jared, the generation in which 1 Enoch says the Watchers descended. Genesis 5:18–20. · Movement Two

Yeshua (Hebrew)

"YHWH saves"; the Messiah, the Word made flesh — the enthroned Son of Man now in skin, never a second God. Matthew 1:21. · throughout

YHWH (Hebrew)

the personal, covenant Name of the one God of Israel. Exodus 3:15. · throughout

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