Jared
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Jared is a popular masculine first name (in the United States and other countries) of Biblical derivation, etymologically of the Hebrew language. Translated it means "descent", denoting both 'descendent' and 'to fall'. In the Hebrew it is written ירד / יֶרֶד / יָרֶד, pronounced yĕ\yā́-rĕḏ. When transliterated into the English language it can be written Jared / Jarod / Jered (among other variations), being generally pronounced as dʒĕ-rĕd\rəd; according to classic Biblical pronunciation (denoted by syllabic stress accenting) it can be rendered dʒā\dʒē-rĕd. The name can be phonetically transcribed from Hebrew to English as Yared(h) / Yered(h) / Yored(h).
Jared may refer to
- A fifth generation descendent of the first human (Adam) and a pre-Global Flood ancestor of Jesus Christ, recorded in the Bible at Genesis 5:15, 1 Chronicles 1:2, and Luke 3:37. His history is accounted in the Holy Scriptures at Genesis 5:18-20. In English translations of the Bible (e.g., KJV) the name is academically pronounced dʒā-rĕd, accordant with classic Biblical enunciation; generally though it is informally pronounced dʒĕ-rĕd\rəd. [See Jared (ancestor of Noah).]
- A paternal descendent of Judah ben-Jacob(Israël), recorded in the Bible at 1 Chronicles 4:18. He may have been the founding settler of the Jewish Israelites who dwelled in the ancient town of Gedor, Judah (modern Khirbet Jedur, West Bank.) English translations of the Holy Scriptures (e.g., KJV) transliterate (spell) the name as Jered (pronounced dʒē-rĕd coherent with classic Biblical enunciation).
- A character in the non-Biblical text The Book of Mormon who is the patriarch of the Jaredites.
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