jared

/JH EH1 R IH0 D/
noun
  1. 1

    A male given name from Hebrew of Biblical origin; rare in the English-speaking world until the 1960s.

  2. 2

    (biblical) A man mentioned in the Book of Genesis, a descendant of Adam and of Seth, the father of Enoch, an ancestor of Noah.

  3. 3

    (Mormonism) The ancestor of the Jaredites in the Book of Mormon.