Every Name in Tanakh

יֶרֶד Jared

Every verse in which this name stands — 7 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the occurrences our own corpus tags as this name, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.

PersonGematria 214×7 named in TanakhFirst appearance:

Strong's records this name for an antediluvian, and of an Israelite. The name stands seven times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 5:15 and last at 1 Chronicles 4:18.

Genesis 5:15בראשית ה:טו

וַֽיְחִי מַֽהֲלַלְאֵל חָמֵשׁ שָׁנִים וְשִׁשִּׁים שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד אֶת־יָֽרֶד

And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begot Jared.

Genesis 5:16בראשית ה:טז

וַֽיְחִי מַֽהֲלַלְאֵל אַֽחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ אֶת־יֶרֶד שְׁלֹשִׁים שָׁנָה וּשְׁמֹנֶה מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בָּנִים וּבָנֽוֹת

And Mahalalel lived after he begot Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:18בראשית ה:יח

וַֽיְחִי־יֶרֶד שְׁתַּיִם וְשִׁשִּׁים שָׁנָה וּמְאַת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד אֶת־חֲנֽוֹךְ

And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and begot Enoch.

Genesis 5:19בראשית ה:יט

וַֽיְחִי־יֶרֶד אַֽחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ אֶת־חֲנוֹךְ שְׁמֹנֶה מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בָּנִים וּבָנֽוֹת

And Jared lived after he begot Enoch eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:20בראשית ה:כ

וַיִּֽהְיוּ כָּל־יְמֵי־יֶרֶד שְׁתַּיִם וְשִׁשִּׁים שָׁנָה וּתְשַׁע מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיָּמֹֽת

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

1 Chronicles 4:18דברי הימים א ד:יח

וְאִשְׁתּוֹ הַיְהֻדִיָּה יָלְדָה אֶת־יֶרֶד אֲבִי גְדוֹר וְאֶת־חֶבֶר אֲבִי שׂוֹכוֹ וְאֶת־יְקֽוּתִיאֵל אֲבִי זָנוֹחַ וְאֵלֶּה בְּנֵי בִּתְיָה בַת־פַּרְעֹה אֲשֶׁר לָקַח מָֽרֶד

and his wife Hajehudijah bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah—and these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh whom Mered took.

Quick answers

What is the gematria of Jared?

Jared — ירד in Hebrew — has a gematria of 214 in the standard method.

How many times is Jared named in the Tanakh?

7 times, first at Genesis 5:15.

A spelling is not a name. The written word ירד stands 51 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell another name or an ordinary word, and a name written with a particle attached is a word that search never returns. It is here, as itself.

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