Bible Names

Jared: meaning of the name

Jared means “a ruling; commanding; coming down.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Jared in Hebrew and Greek

יֶרֶד H3382

Yered (yeh'-red) — Jered, the name of an antediluvian, and of an Israelite

from H3381 (יָרַד); a descent;

Ἰάρεδ G2391

Iáred — Jared (i.e. Jered), an antediluvian

of Hebrew origin (H03382);

Who named Jared in the Bible

Jared in Scripture

“Jared” appears in 6 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 5:15

    And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:

  • Genesis 5:16

    And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • Genesis 5:18

    And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:

  • Genesis 5:19

    And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • Genesis 5:20

    And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

  • Luke 3:37

    Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,