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jared
/ˈdʒɛɹɪd/
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What does jared mean?
proper noun
- A male given name from Hebrew of Biblical origin; rare in the English-speaking world until the 1960s.
- A man mentioned in the Book of Genesis, a descendant of Adam and of Seth, the father of Enoch, an ancestor of Noah.
- The ancestor of the Jaredites in the Book of Mormon.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈdʒɛɹɪd/
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And it came to pass that he said unto Jared: Give her unto me to wife.
The most comprehensive and just appreciation of the character and work of Otis is given us by Francis Bowen in Jared Spark's Library of American Biography.
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For a very full and impartial history of the long controversy over this passage, see Charles Butler's Horae Biblicae, reprinted in Jared Sparks's Theological Essays and Tracts, vol. ii.
The depravity of mankind, which began to show itself in the time of Enosh, had increased monstrously in the time of his grandson Jared, by reason of the fallen angels.
The number of their years may have adequately summed up Jared, Mahalaleel, and the rest of the antediluvians, but the age of a modern man is to be measured by the intensity of his history.