Bible Names

Mered: meaning of the name

Mered means “rebellious, ruling.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Mered in Hebrew and Greek

מֶרֶד H4778

Mered (meh'-red) — Mered, an Israelite

the same as H4777 (מֶרֶד);

Who named Mered in the Bible

Mered in Scripture

“Mered” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:17

    And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:18

    And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.