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HebrewH3382Proper Noun (Masculine)

יֶ֫רֶד

ye.red

7Occurrences
H3382Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Jered, the name of an antediluvian, and of an Israelite

from H3381 (יָרַד); a descent;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at ; son of: Mahalalel (H4111); father of: Enoch (H2585H) Also named: Iared (*Ἰάρεδ *"Jared" G2391) § Jered or Jared = "descent" 1) son of Mahalaleel and father of Enoch in the 4th generation from ) a descendant of Judah and father of Gedor

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

יֶ֫רֶד appears 7 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
5
1 Chronicles
2

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:2BSB

Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,

1 Chronicles 4:18BSB

These were the children of Pharaoh’s daughter Bithiah.Mered also took a Judean wife, who gave birth to Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.

Genesis 5:15BSB

When Mahalalel was 65 years old, he became the father of Jared.

Genesis 5:16BSB

And after he had become the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:18BSB

When Jared was 162 years old, he became the father of Enoch.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.