מֶרֶדMered

proper name, masculine: name in Judah (1 Chronicles 4:17; 1 Chronicles 4:18)

Pronunciation: meh'-red · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4778

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:17 The sons of Ezrah were Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. One of Mered’s wives became the mother of Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah (the father of Eshtemoa).
  • 1 Chronicles 4:18 He married a woman from Judah, who became the mother of Jered (the father of Gedor), Heber (the father of Soco), and Jekuthiel (the father of Zanoah). Mered also married Bithia, a daughter of Pharaoh, and she bore him children.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).