Jared
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Jared is a popular masculine first name (in the United States and other countries) of Biblical derivation, etymologically from 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 / Jerad (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 is the name of the following religious figures:
- A fifth generation descendant of the first human (Adam) in Judeo-Christian religious belief and a pre-Global Flood ancestor of Jesus Christ, mentioned in the Bible at Genesis 5:15, 1 Chronicles 1:2, and Luke 3:37. The story is found in the Holy Scriptures at Genesis 5:18-20. [See Jared (ancestor of Noah).]
- A paternal descendent of Judah ben-Jacob (Israël), mentioned in the Bible at 1 Chronicles 4:18. Some believe he was 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 text The Book of Mormon who is the patriarch of the Jaredites. [See Jared (Book of Mormon).]
