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Jared

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  • proper noun A male given name of Biblical origin; rare in the English-speaking world until the 1960s.
  • proper noun biblical A man mentioned in the Book of Genesis, a descendant of Adam and of Seth, the father of Enoch, an ancestor of Noah.
  • proper noun Mormonism The ancestor of the Jaredites in the Book of Mormon.

Etymologies

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From Classical Hebrew יֶרֶד (yéred). Often explained as deriving from the root י־ר־ד (y-r-d), which forms words relating to descending; some interpret the Book of Enoch as suggesting that the Jared in the Bible was so named because it was in his time that two hundred angels descended from Heaven to Mount Hermon. Alternatively, sometimes explained as deriving from the root ר־ד־ה (r-d-), which forms words relating to ruling.

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